Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...card at Madison Square Garden the night Fritzie Zivic won the welterweight title from Negro Henry Armstrong. Hammering Henry was Ray's ring hero. When he saw Zivic pound his hero's face into a tomato-red pulp, the kid sobbed: "Some day I'm gonna grow big enough to get even with him for what he did to Hank...
Explaining why Harvard would not be likely to scout the coal mines next year, a country writer on the Pinchurst (N.C.) Outlook says that "Harvard is not a football college." Quoting an old tablet, he adds that it was founded so "or children shall not grow up in ignorance...
...triangular antagonism are to be trusted, the "new legal approach" will take the form of either anti-striker or anti-closed-shop laws for the duration. This would be even more disastrous than the temporary loss of fuel, for Lewis has a case and the whole of labor would grow militant in its own defense. Lewis is certainly open to strong criticism for taking advantage of the Mediation Board's chicken-heartedness and refusing to delay the strike pending mediation. He seized this moment, opportune for him and inopportune for the country, to further his own gains. But the Mediation...
...clown, according to Pearce. In his own words: "You have to size up the audience and work them into the right mood, or else the gaga fall flat. That is an art which most persons don't recognize in a performer. And one thing about clown gags, they never grow...
...learns is that the parsonage belongs to the ladies of the congregation. She cannot so much as remove a boar's head from the living-room wall without causing talk. Nor can she wear fine clothes; that would be unseemly, might mortify the good ladies. As her children grow up, their problems multiply hers. Says her teen-age son: "The worst part [of] being a minister's son [is] it ruins my technique with women." His sister has the same trouble in reverse...