Word: cues
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Harrity knew a cue when he heard one. "I'm just a guy," said he, "who happened to be here." Said Faye (according to Reporter Taylor), as the party broke up: "You just wait and see. This will all be in the newspapers...
...labor could exercise the restraint that Phil Murray had promised, labor's real wages would be increased still more by further price drops. If management took its cue from Henry Ford, it would go a long way toward meeting labor's demands in advance...
...better friends, Secretary of State Byrnes and Elder Statesman Baruch had differed over emphasis on abolition of the veto in atomic matters. Baruch had insisted that it must be abolished; Jimmy Byrnes did not think it was all-important. Now Warren Austin would execute the policy, taking his cue from Byrnes...
Once in the Ziegfeld Follies he discovered Comedian Ed Wynn making faces at an audience from beneath the billiard table over which he was brandishing his famed bent cue. He conked Wynn with the cue, knocked him cold, beamed at the applause and went on without interruption...
...last time Harvard and Yale met together on a field called Soldier's to play football it was November, 1941, and Pearl Harbor stood in the wings waiting for her December cue. In a sense, that game was a capstone of the Years Between the Wars, of the World as it Used to Be. Before the war engulfed them both, the two schools played one more, as anti-climactic as the other had been a climax, the last gasp of a world that was already dying. Taht year an underdog Crimson eleven saw an upset victory over Yale slip from...