Word: corking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cinq, at the foot of Montmartre, was down at heel. The decor-very modern—was shabby; the champagne-very expensive-was poor. The worn-looking, faded singer who came on half an hour after midnight matched the setting well. She had frizzled brown hair, a little black dress and cork-soled shoes. She was called La Piaf (Parisian argot for sparrow...
Last week they found their man, balding, able Samuel Dillon Jackson, 50, ex-Senator (for ten months) from Indiana. An infantry captain in World War I, he has a small city background of church elder and 33rd-degree Mason. A good mixer and orator, he likes to "pull the cork up in their throats at least once...
...Service - and its pre cursors had helped the Crown keep tab on good & bad neighbors for nearly 400 years.) Three decades of intensive globetrotting, politicking and lawyering had prepared General Donovan for the job he did in setting up the U.S. in world espionage. One generation removed from County Cork, he was the mild-mannered, studious type, got his antonymous nickname as a quarterback at Columbia. He was heroic, but no wild man, in World War I, where he picked up seven decorations, including the Congressional Medal. The Law & Politics. After the war he poked around China and Siberia, came...
Phase Three: the radio music fades out, a popping champagne cork is heard, followed by the bubbling and gurgling of drinks being poured; then, dramatically, subdued laughter - and a voice: Too many bubbles Often means troubles...
Brigadier General Elliott Roosevelt, who is never out of the news-or hot water-very long, was in both last week. Splenetic Columnist Westbrook Pegler, an old Roosevelt-hater, pulled the cork on a long bottled-up story. There was much of Pegler foam & fume; there was also a muddy brew...