Word: dipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jokesmith of his day is a six-foot gag-&-stunt machine named Milton Berle (rhymes with churl). His 38-year-old brain is a tight-packed file of some 50,000 jokes and japes. With never-miss efficiency, Berle can dip into these mental files, yank out just the gag he wants when he wants it. The "Thief of Badgags" (as spiteful rivals call him), who has probably lured more people into nightclubs than any performer alive, is now making his sixth attempt in 18 years to lure listeners to their radios with a Berle show...
...locate Magee. At week's end the painstaking search of the wreckage revealed no sign of him. But a great crater gaped at the spot on which his vat had stood and a little lake of murky liquid lay at its bottom. Police asked a chemist to dip up a little of the liquid and analyze it. It seemed possible that it would contain the last, mortal traces of "Doctor" Magee...
...what the final economy promise is, Lucas said Congress is morally bound to carry out obligations to support farm prices for the next two years under the program it adopted previously. This would not cost much if prices stay up, but Lucas noted that no one knows when a dip way come...
...Palm Beach, where he now spends his winters, he lives in a large, cream-colored Spanish villa called "The Towers," which he bought last year for $160,000. Young ordinarily gets up at 6 a.m., goes for a quick dip in the surf, eats a quick breakfast, then quickly gets to work. His workroom is a second-floor bedroom facing the ocean. For a desk he uses two ordinary card tables, pulled together. Scorning ghostwriters, he writes all his own magazine articles, personally turns out copy...
...aged prisoner who stood briefly in the dock of London's Bow Street Court was just a routine offender, an habitual pickpocket. But the boys on the reporters' bench, watching the Evening News's bald-headed Jimmy Jones at his shorthand, knew that the old dip would soon look different. Next day, to the Evening News's 1,600,000 readers...