Word: foule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While CBS Board Chairman William Paley was proving once again that this is a year for underdogs, NBC was crying "Foul!" Though trade papers had banner-lined that he had made similar-but smaller-offers to keep Benny, President Niles Trammell announced primly that NBC would "continue to refuse" any part in capital gains deals "until the U.S. Treasury says that such transactions are lawful . . ." Scoffed a CBS spokesman: "Mr. Trammell's statement is unwarranted and reflects unfairly on many creative artists who have done no more than abide by our tax laws like any businessman or corporation...
...first quarter resolved into nothing more than a foul shooting contest with neither side getting the edge, and the half ended in a 20 to 20 tie. The game held true to early-season form all the way, with Brown committing 26 personal fouls and the Crimson...
...bloods made fortunes on which they built more respectable empires. Young Alfred Harmsworth (later Lord Northcliffe) founded the Daily Mail and bought the Times itself with the help of his bloody pennies. Harmsworth and others like him repeated the still popular yellow-press hypocrisy that the aim of a foul story was not to please, but to educate the public; thus, the reader was expected to find a sort of Sermon on the Mount in a discussion of the murder of prostitutes "by mutilation, dismemberment, garrotting, throat-slitting and clubbing." ("I have a small collection of moral remarks," confessed...
...horse Sterope had just won the Cambridgeshire Stakes. The purse was a mere $12,273, but Townley stood to win a staggering $600,000 in bets. And the jockey on Royal Tara, which finished second, had claimed a foul against his horse. What if Townley's horse had won only to be disqualified...
...some more al 40. Then the price eased off to 33. Sterope went to the post at 25 to 1. Altogether Townley bet about $16,000 on him to win -and Sterope won by a slim half-length While Townley waited, the stewards reviewed the claim of foul. They not only disallowed it, but fined Jockey Charlie Smirke $100 for making a "frivolous objection." After collecting his $600,000 Plunger Townley said with the air of man who means it: "Betting is a fool's game. I think I'll go in for breeding...