Word: hotfoot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about the eternal verities. The Skin of Our Teeth is like a philosophy class conducted in a monkey house. In showing how man through the ages has escaped destruction by the skin of his teeth, the play tweaks his nose, barks his shins, musses his hair, gives him the hotfoot. It tweaks its own nose too: the philosopher implies he may be a monkey himself...
Aghast at how quickly the civil-servant mentality can figure out committees to waste time, the new minister overhauled his top personnel in what became known as Bracken's Blitzkrieg. Since then he has built up a photographic department, given the hotfoot to BBC, made friends with U.S. correspondents, gained new respect for the M.O.I, from British newspapers...
...POCKETFUL OF CLUES-James R. Langham-Simon & Schuster ($2). Tough Detective Sammy Abbott, who has a morbid appetite for peanut butter on his ice cream, sees a ragamuffin giving the hotfoot to a park-bench sleeper. The sleeper does not twitch. In fact underneath his newspaper he has no head at all. A story of civic corruption in Santa Monica, with mayor dead and crooked politicians confounded...
...Jersey State Legislature, never noted for its dignity, outdid itself one night last week. A hillbilly band twanged while some lawmakers applauded, some moaned. A fireworks bomb exploded. Members gave dozing colleagues the hotfoot. Dice and cards rattled in anterooms, and bars in the vicinity of the State House did a brisk trade...
...STATION WAGON MURDER-Milton Propper- Harper ($2). Extortion is loose among Philadelphia's summering socialites and the body of Mrs. Eleanor Munson is found stabbed, in a station wagon. Trollop or no, Mrs. M. had a history that took Detective Tommy Rankin hotfoot to the scene of an adulterous Maryland tryst...