Word: cinching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other items which Sir William traces far include: absquatulate, anxious seat, slam bang, cinch, lengthy, maverick, rain check, barn stormer, cowcatcher, calamity howler, greased lightning, rambunctious...
Over Twenty-One (by Ruth Gordon; produced by Max Gordon). It was a dead cinch that in her maiden stage effort Ruth Gordon the playwright would be kind to Ruth Gordon the actress. It was less a cinch that she would also be kind to the audience. But though Over Twenty-One is a collection of comic swatches rather than something cut from whole cloth, it proves a lively evening...
...Cinch. Now getting $100,000 a year for his newscasting, Vandercook is "amazed" by the freedom of U.S. radio. No one at NBC interferes with anything he says or proposes to say. He writes his own material, utters his own opinions. Vandercook rarely goes in for prediction. His military analyses have benefited from his acute sense of geography. Says he: "The tactics of the desert, the tactics of the mountain are geographical. . . . When we take a machine-gun nest in Italy, I don't say the German lines have been smashed. In that kind of terrain, there...
Beekeeping is a low-cost cinch, for a hive of bees requires only eight hours of care annually, as compared with an hour and a half daily for the family cow. And two or three mature doe rabbits will keep rabbit meat flowing to the table with almost beltline regularity...
...score was 14-to-12, with 28 seconds to play. Unbeaten in nine games, outplayed in its tenth but ahead anyhow, Notre Dame was about to cinch its national championship. Then Seaman Steve Lach, former Duke and Chicago Cardinal star, heaved a 54-yard pass to Quarterback Paul Anderson, and that was the ball game: Notre Dame 14, Great Lakes Naval Training Station...