Word: jabs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A.P.H. was never better. His satiric jingles had a near-Gilbertian nip & skip. After his first jab, a hilarious hymn to The Good Old Days ("The women wore a little more and beer was alcoholic"), he quickly took a swipe at Socialism: We love our country but we hate The swollen octopus, the State That fills our stomachs well enough But robs the soul of precious stuff...
...living in a $175-a-month Manhattan apartment. Last week tradesmen were boldly presuming to offer her jobs-the tabloid New York Daily News announced, with a frightful leer, that Reggie Vanderbilt's 40-year-old widow had been asked to peddle phonograph needles at "$50 a jab." And to make it all practically unendurable, her own daughter, Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski, with a fortune of $4,500,000, refused to give her a penny. Things hadn't been so embarrassing since the time, twelve years ago, when she was loudly called unfit, and lost custody of Gloria...
...with measured daring and high hopes, Halsey turned south (see map) with the greatest naval force ever assembled to jab at the enemy's heart. On the way his massive force was magnified. He was joined by the British Pacific Fleet (operating in strength equivalent to a U.S. task group, with probably four carriers, two or more battleships and a dozen to a score of cruisers and destroyers). Its commander: fair-haired, grey-eyed Vice Admiral Sir Henry Bernard Rawlings...
...that he's finally learned to say "about" and "come," Tom Wileaux seems destined for certain success in the social world. Spearling of carcers, Abe Zeleznik could, as someone so quaintly said, in a chit for the janitor's jab if he stayed much longer after Full Studies and Management...
...mile cross-country trip, he had been content to jab steadily, pushing the champ off balance, until Franklin Roosevelt came out with his old haymaking right hook. (TIME, Oct. 2). Even then, Tom Dewey labeled his own slugging back at Oklahoma City a "digression." But that toe-to-toe digression had brought Republican cheers. Republican ringsiders, who had sat on their hands while Tom Dewey endorsed New Deal measures, clapped, shouted and sent telegrams, demanding more of the same. Next night, on his homeward journey to Albany, Dewey abandoned his previous objections to barnstorming, was still happily "digressing," making back...