Word: grinder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then, still whole, but looking a little as if he had escaped from an enormous meat grinder, Auriol was sped north to Canada. New York, a city which gulps up princes and Presidents like gumdrops and remembers almost nobody, was rumbling away as if nothing had happened...
Meat for the Grinder. During his four years at Ohio Wesleyan University, Stanton continued to work at the Metropolitan, commuting 90 miles to Dayton every weekend. He also found time to be elected president of the senior honorary society and of his fraternity, Phi Delta Theta; to be put on probation for his part in the production of a college musical, some of whose lines offended the Methodist sensibilities of Ohio Wesleyan's faculty, and to split a $2,100 profit as editor of the college yearbook, which was illustrated by a boyhood chum who later became well-known...
...than when seen. To bring this finding to the attention of radio broadcasters, he thoughtfully sent a copy of his paper to CBS. Paul Kesten, then CBS vice president in charge of advertising and sales promotion, pounced on Stanton's report as "good red meat for my meat grinder," wired him an offer of a research job at $50 a week...
From door to door in Atlanta last week went the Atlanta Journal's Reporter John Keasler; he was out to test the hoarding instinct of housewives. In his bag he had seven pepper grinders and at each door he solemnly told housewives that "ground black pepper will be scarce" and they better buy a grinder and grind their own. In six hours, Reporter Keasler sold his grinders and this week in the Journal he gleefully told how housewives 1) will buy anything if they think it's a bargain, and 2) pay no attention to what salesmen...
Burgess Meredith, who is responsible for the fine direction of the film, plays Heurtin, the accused innocent. As a myopic knife-grinder who is hopelessly implicated in the murder by circumstantial evidence, Meredith deftly characterizes a pathetic little man who complicates Maigret's plans by his desperate search for revenge...