Word: croppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public-opinion pollsters, said President Truman on Election Day, "are going to be red-faced tomorrow." He was right. Not since the Literary Digest fiasco of 1936 had opinion-samplers come such a cropper...
After three years of practice, Gallup had assured himself that polls on toothpaste and politics were one & the same. He was also convinced that the famed Literary Digest poll was heading for a disastrous cropper. The millions of Digest postcards were mailed on the basis of telephone and auto registration lists and took no account of the low-income voters who had swung solidly behind the New Deal...
Actor Basil Rathbone, 55, came a painful cropper. His black police dog, Maritza, snapped the leash while the two were strolling in Manhattan's Central Park; Maritza leaped a high wall and dashed into Fifth Avenue traffic; Rathbone tried to follow suit, fell over the wall, broke his left wrist, and fainted. Skipped: one performance of the Broadway hit, The Heiress. Thereafter he villainized with his arm in a cast...
Hand-to-Mouth. British industry was in no holiday mood, either. "If there is any letup in production," said Sir Stafford Cripps of Britain's export-or-die program, "we shall come a cropper in a year or two." The export goal, 175% of 1938 volume, had looked close last July: exports were up to 120%. But by November they had slipped to 117%. And last week, due to lack of coal, the export program was well on its way to coming a cropper...
...clean out of fur men last week was the news that Manhattan's Motty Eitingon Inc., the nation's largest single operator in furs, had filed in bankruptcy, begged for a six months' moratorium on its obligations. Eitingon (rhymes with biting gone), who had come a cropper once before in furs (in 1932 he had to reorganize after a $7,500,000 loss) had got himself in trouble again for the same reason-overexpansion...