Word: crow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dazed but unrepentant, Broadway Columnist Ed Sullivan began and ended a piece by asking with a silly smirk: "Wha' Hoppened?" The Alsop brothers, who had considerably more reason to ask, airily wired their editors that "these particular reporters prefer their crow fricasseed...
With perverse taste and awkward haste, some newspapers last week tried to write off the appalling election performance of the U.S. press as an amusing little joke. The Washington Post sent a can't-we-be-friends telegram to President Truman: YOU ARE HEREBY INVITED TO A "CROW BANQUET" TO WHICH THIS NEWSPAPER PROPOSES TO INVITE NEWSPAPER EDITORIAL WRITERS, POLITICAL REPORTERS AND EDITORS, INCLUDING OUR OWN, ALONG WITH POLLSTERS, RADIO COMMENTATORS AND COLUMNISTS . . . MAIN COURSE WILL CONSIST OF BREAST OF TOUGH OLD CROW EN GLACE. (YOU WILL EAT TURKEY.) . . . DRESS FOR GUEST OF HONOR, WHITE TIE. FOR OTHERS -SACK...
...these periods lasts, with one or two exceptions, from 12 to 16 years. Now I'm not saying that Schlesinger would feel he had to get up there on the platform and join those jolly good sports who are making such a noise and a bother about "eating crow." Among the past exceptions to his theory was the 32-year period from 1869 to 1901, and he has explained it so that it doesn't alter the theory. And if he can do that, he ought to be able to take a period that lasts perhaps only 20 years...
...Cracked the wife of New York Post Home News Columnist Leonard Lyons: "Crow will be selling wholesale today...
...they could not negotiate at all so long as Bridges and other Maritime Union chiefs refused to sign the Taft-Hartley law's non-Communist affidavit. The owners showed every sign of being prepared to sit it out until Bridges was busted. Bridges had the choice of eating crow or explaining to his members why they should continue a strike which had cost them more than $5,000,000 in wages...