Word: dogfighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coolidge in Dogfight...
...that Pascal had guaranteed Deborah a certain sum after British taxes. To Hollywood the price seemed prohibitive. Poor Deborah languished as helplessly as the rich man with the needle's-eye view of heaven. Then, suddenly, she became more like a bone at the vortex of a dogfight. MGM, Sam Goldwyn, Loew-Lewin, Hal Wallis and J. Arthur Rank were all trying to get at her. It was M-G-M which finally bought out Pascal, and gave her a new contract. For an unknown it was fairly fabulous-a document to raise loud whistles in front offices...
Tweedledum &Tweedledumber. Most U.S. readers will see in the struggle of Stalin and Trotsky a fight between ins & outs, a Tweedledum and Tweedledee dogfight for power, in which Trotsky, despite his brilliance, proved the Tweedledumber. The clash of their personalities, all but inevitable, was implicit even in the antagonists' physical appearance. Trotsky, haranguing his troops, his outsize, intellectual, goateed head cocked above his flaring military coat, looked like a blend of a broker who has just made a killing on the Paris bourse and an actor from the Yiddish Art Theater. Stalin, with his low forehead, ferally cautious manner...
...Denver merchants to buy Bonfils' coal. They kept a shotgun in their red-carpeted office (which the underpaid staff called the "bucket of blood"), once were both wounded when an irate reader beat them to the draw. Even that affray was grist for their newsmill. Blustered Bonfils: "A dogfight in Champa Street is better than a war abroad." The maxim was drilled into George Creel, Gene Fowler, many another bright pupil in the Post's hell-for-leather journalism school...
...close. The White Sox, with something not apparent to the naked eye, were a third-place threat. And now Cleveland's amazing Indians jumped from seventh to fourth (winning 19 out of their last 28 games). The season had five weeks to go, and it looked like another dogfight to the finish...