Word: em
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks ago needle-witted Tom Connally, senior Senator from Texas, blithely predicted that the 1941 tax bill would "just jerk 'em out of their shoes." Although the jerk won't come until March 15, 1942, last week the U.S. and Congress got their first clear look at the Treasury's new forceps. The public, with only a few painful gulps, stood up to the frightful sight like a brave little man, but Congress fainted dead away. Later it opened one eye to ask for plenty of anesthetic during the operation...
...chance to win the National League pennant. In four previous exhibition games this year the Yankees had been licked by the Dodgers. "The Yanks may be the best team in the American League," chorused Brooklynites last week, "but if they played in our league we'd moider 'em...
...graveyard run by a pretty boy with delicate wrists and a swing in his gait. ... Do you want to know what's the matter with the art business in America? It's the third sex and the museums. Even in Missouri we're full of 'em. Our museums are full of ballet dancers, retired businessmen and boys from the Fogg Institute at Harvard where they train museum directors and art artists. I'd have people buy the paintings and hang them in privies or anywhere anybody had time to look at 'em. Nobody looks...
...Columbia's Piggly Wiggly stores. In an account of his work in last week's Saturday Evening Post Lawyer Perry gave his successor some pointers: "Be sure to lay off opera; the most important thing about symphonies is the number of minutes it takes to play'em-hold out for the short, noisy ones . . . They got you for the same reason they hooked me-first, you are a sucker and second, you are tone-deaf. That i; the type they want...
...English translations appear at the bottom of the screen. When Crosby tries to argue Hope into wrestling the octopus, he explains : "I'm trying to make you famous-people will write books about you." Cracks Hope: "Well, I know three words that won't be in 'em-'ripe old age.' " Bing-of-all-Trades. Road to Zanzibar is not a 100% movie. That is as it should be, for its star is not a 100% movie star...