Word: gloving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Right now the one country that fits the specifications of the protocol-and fits them like the velvet glove on an iron fist -is Poland. But diplomatic relations between Russia and the Polish Goyernment in Exile have been suspended for months, and neither side seems keen to renew them. Last week the Polish Cabinet called a meeting to discuss the situation, then called it off when Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk was bedded with the flu. Polish press comment took the general line that Poland would be glad to join up, provided the Russians would guarantee Poland's pre-1939 borders...
Burly Mike Kennedy, his jowls buried deep in the folds of his great bull neck, listened to the results by radio, like any other citizen. Sitting in the midst of the fitful, strained conversation, he had plenty of time to reflect on the newest scandal-his alleged hand-in-glove scheming with Racketeer Frank Costello (see p. 22)-which had driven the final nail in Tammany's coffin...
...four-ounce-glove fight-and Crosby-lasted 77 rounds, five hours and five minutes.* The winner was a St. Louis printer named Harry Sharpe, whose rewards were 1) the Missouri lightweight championship, 2) a side bet of $500, 3) eleven months in jail for violating an anti-prizefight law. (Crosby was let off.) Both men had trained so well they were still slugging in the 76th round, when they knocked each other down simultaneously. Crosby banged his head and got up dazed. Sharpe put him down for the count a few minutes later...
...careful Tom Dewey has not neglected to make solid connections on the political side. He works hand in glove with shrewd Edwin F. Jaeckle, State G.O.P. chairman, and J. Russel Sprague, boss of Nassau County's Republican machine. He maintains close working relations with G.O.P. legislative leaders. His political secretary is smooth, amiable Paul E. Lockwood, his onetime executive assistant in the District Attorney's office...
True, there were a few clouds, but they were no bigger yet than a man's glove...