Word: ems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctor straighten out his nose. He knew it was time to quit. Said Fritzie: "You know why fighters get started on comebacks . . . they got nuthin' to do so they drop around to the gyms and finally they say to themselves: 'Lookit those bums ... I can lick 'em myself!' So they go and become bums too. Not me ... I've never heard strange noises yet and I'm not going to ... two or three more fights, then it's all over...
...stumble over his fast-moving self. But Corrigan has yet to stumble. He went right on building shopping centers, erecting housing units around them. During the depression less than 1% of Corrigan's properties were vacant: his low-rent policy kept them filled. Says he: "I spread 'em around, that's the answer. Rather than make a big profit out of one building, I get a little profit out of one building...
...tried not to resent the whole thing, like a good soldier. After all, he thought, what could you expect with a military man running the whole set-up? It was probably the efficient method. And perhaps this was the way to handle veterans; hit 'em with a crisp military tone and they'll comply before the daze wears off. "You can't treat these guys too soft," he could imagine one Harvard Medical Officer sneering. "They're used to the rough stuff...
...hard work. Some of the newcomers have been waving the Dec. 30 Miscellany column under the copydesk's nose and pointing to the line about "burglars" tunneling into the Clayton (Okla.) State Bank. The persons who swiped those 33,300 pennies were thieves, yes; burglars, no. Tell 'em so, will...
...letting it come off-as Hitchcock did in Notorious-Caniff has become the best tantalizer in the profession. It is the same heartless treatment that keeps housewives suffering daily with radio's Young Widder Brown, and it has the same crass commercial purpose. "It forces 'em to buy the paper," says Caniff, "to find out what the hell is going...