Word: clinching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hobo until he runs off with her maid and car. The libretto is a gag-writer's dream, filled with skillful swoons (by Marie Powers, star of The Medium), gay tunes, and amateur-theatrical hamming. The audience loved every minute of it, right down to the final clinch and the hero's preposterous curtain line-"Your mouth is an abyss...
...Barclaymen drew to within seven points of the Green in the waning moments of play. They lost Hauptfuhrer in the process, however, and then watched the fleet-footed enemy drop in three baskets and an equal number of foul shots, punctuated only by two Crimson free throws, to clinch the encounter...
House league standings remained static yesterday as the Lowell quintet wound up its schedule with a decisive 53 to 31 win over the Leverett Bunnies. Capitalizing on their first breaks and board supremacy, the Bellboys steadily added to their early lead to clinch third place on the court ladder. Fred Donehoa registered 23 points for the victors...
...picked and kicked at him. Then, with the kind of blind tenacity that seems to excel a human's, the grey came back. Almost 40 minutes later, he won over the red. Next morning, another of Kehoe's grey muffs came back from the dead to clinch first prize ($7,000) of the Orlando tournament for Kehoe. Glowed rough, tough old John Kehoe: "Cockfighting has added ten years to my life...
Lining up these summer jobs is the duty of Holt's aide. Mrs. Ryan, who directs operations from her Weld Hall office. Actually, the Bureau does not clinch jobs. It acts, rather, as a clearing house, sending out lists in November to most of the New England-New York camps and resort hotels requesting information on employee vacancies...