Word: gloving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hayes thinks his comedy ideas are best expressed in his characterization of "Punchy Callahan"-a hilarious but touching portrait of an ex-pug, as shapeless, scuffed and unwanted as a worn-out boxing glove. Even after three weeks, busy Copacabana waiters still stop, look & listen to Punchy...
...having a fielder's glove custom-made for Joe Di Maggio III, aged 4^. Said he: "It's an exact copy of mine, but small. It will cost as much as mine but that's all right [since he makes a $43,500-a-year salary, Di Mag could well afford it]. Most kids have skimpy little gloves and I don't want him to have to use one of those." Di Mag even knows the time the train gets him into Manhattan's Penn Station from Baltimore, spring's last exhibition stop. Says...
...State Department's attitude toward Perón was not likely to change. That attitude was founded on evidence, printed in last month's Blue Book, that Juan Perón. had been hand-in-glove with U.S. enemies in World War II. But with Perón the winner, his country's presence at the proposed Rio conference of American republics would be embarrassing to all, and most to the U.S. Prospects that the conference would meet this month-or even this spring-were growing...
...have written every sentence in her book no less than three times. At its ardent best, her style is hopeful and reverent, rather than adequate. Amidst such prose, an occasional direct quotation from Samuel I or II comes like the blow of a hammer through a cotton work glove...
...Masaryk. In their official Journal, delegates found a familiar little list of items absentmindedly left behind in their various London meeting places: two keys, two spectacle cases (empty), one Elizabeth Arden lipstick, one entrance pass No. 10156, two pipes, one bracelet, one book titled Miami, one brown gauntlet glove, three pen tops, one copy of Hymns Ancient and Modern...