Word: clinch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much. Bogart knows his way perfectly around this sort of plot. He finds out who murdered his wife and his best friend (he is accused of murdering them), disposes of a petty crook (Clifton Young) who has latched onto him for blackmail, and gets set for the ultimate clinch with Miss Bacall...
Highwaymen, whose offense made them liable to gibbeting, were the heroes of low life throughout the period. Swift immortalized one such "knight of the pad" in his ballad, Clever Tom Clinch Going to Be Hanged...
...clever Tom Clinch, while the rabble was bawling, Rode stately through Holborn to die at his calling, He stopt at the George for a bottle of sack, And promis'd to pay for it when he came back...
...quivering jelly. For a few words from Hedda, set down with the same swooping abandon with which she selects the hats that have become her trademark, or one of Lolly Parsons' little shark-toothed prose smiles, can make or break a director or an actor, cool or clinch a deal. Hedda's chit-chat can materially affect the outcome of schemes involving millions of dollars. She is a self-appointed judge and censor of all that goes on in Hollywood, and she carries out her assignment with a hey nonny-nonny...
Charles ("Buddy") Rogers, who used to be billed by Hollywood as "America's Boy Friend" before he married Mary ("America's Sweetheart") Pickford, flew into New York for a tenth wedding anniversary celebration, pitched into an old-timey movie clinch for photographers (see cut). The boy friend was now a greying 42, the sweetheart...