Word: concocted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stadium Saturday. A third member of the Michigan backfield is pile-driving Bob Westfall, the fullback. If Senior halfback Paul Kremer gets a definite medical okay, Coach Crisler will be able to field one of the best backfields of all time. It's useless to try and concoct new superlatives for Harmon; just try to imagine him as a combination of all the others. He is just as elusive as Dartmouth's little Ted Arice, has more breakaway speed than Torbie Macdonald had, weighs a good 190 pounds, and has the running savvy and intuition of Red Grange...
Awesome to fellow zanies is Allen's ability to concoct his own jokes. Most of them depend on gagmen for their wit. Allen writes much of his show himself, decisively edits the contributions of his two assistant scripteurs. Practically unchanged this season will be the formula that carried his program along on NBC. In his dry, unhappy, singsong drawl, Allen will still handle 60% of the dialogue, manage, between musical pauses, to give his own news of the week, interview unexpected guests, preside over the dramatic doings of the Mighty Allen Art Players. For his famed ad libs...
...history of New York City politics is as bumptious and cynical a saga as a combination of Damon Runyon, Ernest Hemingway, and Thorne Smith could concoct. Now that "The Little Flower" and "Reform" reign supreme, that saga of the Men of Tammany is fast becoming a glowing legend, another Homeric Age. A nostalgic reminiscence of things past is "The Great McGinty," the story of a bum who voted thirty-seven times in one election--on the right side--and became governor for his pains. As governor he went straight and had to get out of the country...
...complained that their re-enactment of underworld derring-do was bad stuff for children, Gang Busters pointed out that the little ones couldn't learn too early that crime does not pay. When Probation Officer Frank Xavier Reller of St. Louis denounced the program for inspiring juveniles to concoct all kinds of deviltry, Gang Busters boasted that over a hundred mobsters had been brought to justice through aerial tips that they supplied...
Goings-on of other characters afford the most protracted and admiring insult to the British upper classes that a notorious Irish ingenuity could concoct. As a novel, Going Native has even less form than probability; it becomes remarkably absent-minded in the last 100 pages; but till then it can be read with pleasure for Gogarty's bland, black irreverence, his loving literary effrontery and his careful bounty of wisecracks. Such...