Word: gate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day tempers flared again. Winston Churchill took a lacing when he interrupted a backbencher. Said the Speaker: "You cannot gate-crash." Churchill, white with anger, protested that gate-crashing was a nasty word and its application to him was "wholly unwarranted." The Speaker said he was "very sorry...
Last term's production, "Adam the Creator," netted larger total gate receipts due to its five...
...Bettina Wilson, fashion editor of Vogue, held with progress. When she swirled into London's glacially snooty "400" club (evening dress required) wearing a breathlessly new, just-above-the-ankles Paris gown, she was politely given the gate and a little lecture. "One swallow does not make a spring," Proprietor George Rossi told her primly. "When we see more women wearing evening dresses above the ankles, we will revise our standards." Mrs. Wilson went quietly...
...little tap dance to convince the two doctors from the New York State Athletic Commission that his kneecap-broken only three months ago-was mended. They were convinced-too easily. Everybody wanted Beau Jack to fight. The ex-shoeshine boy had pulled more cash customers ($1,400,000 in gate receipts) into Madison Square Garden in 18 main events than any other boxer. In the fourth round last week against Tony Janiro, Beau tried to duck a left hook, and his kneecap cracked again, in five places...
Back at the Embassy gate, Cop Simon had found his tongue. As Soragna stepped out Simon observed cheerfully, "The sun has come out, monsieur." The Italian nodded. He was heading back to Rome, where Italians were working themselves into spasms of grief over the treaty he had just signed. "The fatherland is in mourning," said black-bordered newspapers in Rome...