Word: digged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Readers will not have to dig much farther than this into The King's General to know that Daphne du Maurier has again struck pay dirt in the same lode that produced her best-selling Rebecca and Jamaica Inn. Her new novel (the Literary Guild's January selection) is a hose-and-doublet pageant of the English Civil War (1642 to 1646) for which Miss du Maurier's agent has whispered loudly to Hollywood that $250,000 will do. The chief characters of The King's General are mostly out of English history; .heir lusty, gusty...
...managed to pull out of Gardenville, which normally handles 50 to 60 trains a day. At sidings throughout the north and east, tired, cursing railroadmen struggled to throw switches half covered with snow and ice, kept on the job 16 hours a day. Thousands of men were recruited to dig out the railroads...
Already in the bag were 20% raises for Amalgamated's 15,000 glove and neckwear workers, its 15,000 retail salesmen and journeymen tailors, and 25,000 laundry workers. Never, in all the negotiations, had it been necessary to dig up the unfortunate "relic." (Thirty-one-year-old Amalgamated has not had a general strike or lockout since 1921.) But the results were there...
...brain child of 20-year-old Sob Sister Marie Manning and the late Hearstling Arthur Brisbane, "Advice" soon was a must for 200 papers. Marie married, others took over. But 1929 sent her back to title, typewriter and text: "Dry your eyes, roll up your sleeves and dig for a practical solution...
This column shouldn't end without a dig at the slick 80-page program issued down at Yale. It made Yale football look like big business--a public relations man's dream--and it made President Seymour's signature on the eight-college Eastern football pact look a little out of place. Or perhaps football programs should have pictures of the football players as they looked...