Word: clamming
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Half a century ago a pompous, patrician French Army officer, Mercier du Paty de Clam, played a key role in the historic plot against Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus. Emile Zola's flaming J'Accuse! began "I accuse Colonel du Paty de Clam of having been the diabolical agent...
Nancy Ann Abbott leaves statistics to her business manager and partner, A. L. Rowland. She is usually incredulous when she hears her doll production translated into 180,000 yards of cloth, 3,000 gallons of paint, 1,500,000 yards of baby ribbon a year. But both partners clam up when they are asked about profits. All Partner Rowland will say about the net income on 1943's $1,000,000 gross is: "We ain't complainin...
Henry Ford kept his shrewd mouth shut clam-tight about the changes. But many a motor-wise man made good guesses. Most likely: when auto production is resumed, Ford will drop its Zephyr and Lincoln-Continental lines; will turn its designing job over to outsiders again; will concentrate on turning out frill-free cars cheaper and faster than anyone else. In effect, the Lizzie would again become a kind of family jeep...
Meanwhile, Atlantic City prepared for its next contest-to choose the nation's swiftest clam and oyster openers. That sounded like more...
Eventually, Thorndike believes, the man attached the sound "ik" to stick, in a lifetime developed in this way a private language of perhaps 20 to 25 words. Making himself understood was harder, but his fellows, hearing him cry "Kuz!" whenever he found a clam, finally caught...