Word: handly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...take advantage of Tom Dewey's pulling power. Plainly bored by Herbert's long-winded campaigning, many a Republican was listening to the impromptu, Lincoln-quoting speeches of Democrat Lausche, who had whipped the whole state machine to win the nomination, now was playing a lone hand with little mention of the rest of his ticket. His chances on Election day depended on the strength of an increasingly common curbstone comment: "I vote Republican but I'm going to cut over for Lausche...
...been going to Denver to see his brother. Martin Mitzkus, his boss on the ranch at Forsyth, Mont., had offered to fly him there. They had stopped overnight at Casper, Wyo., had started out again in the morning. Ranch-hand Alvey, a rugged man of 37, remembered how the red. single-engined Taylorcraft had headed in between two peaks of the Medicine Bow Range. Then a downdraft had seized it, and the plane crashed...
Porter, on the other hand, supported the return of direct price control on consumer goods, a tax on excess profits, restoration of full rent control, extension of consumer credit controls, and allocation of critical materials in short supply...
This latest Hart gem centers about two antagonistic groups: a playwright on the one hand, and a crew of theatrical angels, directors, and actresses on the other. And it would appear that Mr. Hart has felt for too long that 1) playwrights fear to say what they believe with daring and originality, and that 2) theatrical folk are tough and reasonably unscrupulous cutthroats. All this Mr. Hart has now said...
...Freshmen, on the other hand, turned up surprisingly strong and hopeful by outrunning Tufts in last week's meet. Eleven of the first 17 positions in the first-year contest were filled by the Yardlings, who have an even chance of making it two straight...