Word: jabs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...repainted a clear cream color. But the Old Howard with its translucent stench rising to a few few above the sea level on the ground floor is changing its cosmetics, not its complexion. This week as every week the stage show deals a knock-out punch--a foul jab strictly below the belt. Rumor for years has claimed that the chorus of 30 beauties 30 is recruited from rheumatic jitterbugs on the list of retired University employees, but no one goes to see the chorus anyhow, It's the blue-lighted anatomical solos which bring the crowds past...
...remember back to 1937 when the first "Pins and Needles" began to tickle the D.A.R. and jab the vanishing Republican, the third edition may seem to lack the former non-professional glow. Now almost an institution, the I.L.G.W.U. boys and girls have outdone themselves, and are almost too good...
...jab which might have pierced a thicker hide than Texas Jack's. Many of his colleagues in Washington wondered, too, why Mr. Garner had not even gone to the funeral of his old friend William Bankhead, Speaker of the House...