Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...huge, red-cheeked adjutant who swung down from a truck loaded with heavily armed soldiers. He would escort us to the command post of Lieut. General Li Mi, commander of the Thirteenth Army Group. He pointed north toward a hill rising like the hump of a razorback hog out of the fields. The truck wallowed off the road through a shallow ditch and followed a telephone wire stretched across the parched, lumpy land, already sown with winter wheat...
...circulation is now the state's largest, outside of Milwaukee, but even so, the Times netted only $45,925 in 1947. (The Journal's earnings: $38,279.) Evjue decides which stories to play, and personally covers important legislative hearings. His signed editorials, dictated in a hoarse hog-call, frequently run on Page One; the overflow of his opinions fills a column ("Hello, Wisconsin"). A teetotaler, Evjue is a tireless foe of liquor and gamblers. A deer lover, he won't let his copy desk use "sportsman" in hunting stories (in the Times, a hunter is a hunter...
That was the way Songwriters Jay Livingston and Ray Evans talked-but they really had no complaint coming. For two years, Evans & Livingston, both 33, have been eating high on the hog. Their first big hit was a song called To Each His Own, which made them about $80,000, enough for each of them to buy a house and get married...
This is the kind of role that Jimmy Stewart could play blindfolded, hog-tied and in the bottom of a well. He gives it all the best Stewartisms, and modestly allows adequate working room to Copilot Eddie Albert and half a dozen other skilled troupers (notably Roland Young and Willard Parker). As a comedienne, Joan Fontaine tries out a new set of mannerisms, most of which seem to have been borrowed from Jean Arthur...
...University of Chicago philosopher, Professor Mortimer J. Adler -"the cultural center of the. West." To spread the tidings, persuasive Lynn Williams persuaded Chicago's Mayor Martin H. Kennelly to proclaim a Great Books Week. Kennelly agreed: "I think Chicago should be known as something besides the 'hog butcher for the world...