Word: flushes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election, called him a "tool of the power trust." More important, Montreal suspected that Mayor Raynault was a political stalking horse for Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis, Quebec boss of the conservatives. Duplessis, no friend of Great Britain, lost his provincial premiership and control of the Legislature in the first flush of Canada's war enthusiasm a year ago, but is struggling for a comeback. He represents a great body of French Canadians who are getting almost as wary of World War II as they were of World War I (when there were ugly antidraft riots). If Mayor Raynault...
Tactless Mr. Edison's point was that U. S. warships needed more anti-aircraft protection. To have agreed with him last May, after the first flush of German air triumphs in Norway, would have meant that the admirals yielded an inch or so in the hot controversy between sea and air power. Naval officers in Washington privately suggested that Mr. Edison was a bit of an ignoramus. Charles Edison was glad enough to turn his portfolio over to Pub lisher Frank Knox and get elected Governor of New Jersey...
...Bologna, fat, flush Tenor Beniamino Gigli found he had won the weekly Italian national lottery. He promptly split the 11,000 lire ($555.50) prize among a friend and the three waiters whose shield numbers he had played...
...last week, most of the complaining had been done by labor. Its statisticians do not like the comparative production, employment and payroll figures for the first half of 1940. Production, as measured by the Federal Reserve Board index, was back up to 96% of the flush first half of 1937; but employment had recovered to only 92% of the first half of 1937, and payrolls (reflecting skilled trades' overtime more than higher wages) to only 93%. One answer to this is the greater security labor now enjoys on the down side, as shown in the catastrophic first half...
...kibitzers peeking at a disgruntled poker-player's four flush" would be an appropriate title for the ornamental keystones over the Cambridge Fire Station doorways--seen from a distance. At close range though, the figures turn out to be the driver of a fire engine with two mates grimly holding on behind. And this Janus-like duality in the stone heroes' appearance can also be found in a real smoke-eater's life...