Word: jib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Free and Easy," the second feature, isn't quite so full of jib-sails, topsails, fo's'l's and "lower the mainsail's," but it's a good deal livelier and less conducive to napping in the loges. Robert Cummings and Ruth Hussey manage to amuse both themselves and the audience; and they do it without the benefit of a single Hollywood Indian...
...engineer Count, married him, moved to Paris and set up a salon for journalists and politicians. Helene de Fortes was short, homely, plain, dark, nervous, jealous and not very bright; but she apparently had something for which Frenchmen would trade every grace. Widowed two years ago, she set her jib for a bright financier named Paul Reynaud. Soon Reynaud, who till then had been a good family man, separated from his wife. Under the administration of Georges Bonnet (then Minister of Justice) the divorce laws were altered and the financier expected to be free within one year instead of three...
Quick to attack this figure was jib-nosed John Jeremiah Pelley, president of A.A.R. Testifying before TNEC next day, he called Analyst Eastman's road-cost allocation an "astonishing assumption," defended "home owners, farmers and others who pay general taxes" against the implicit charge of paying less than their share. A.A.R.'s own conclusion: that vehicle owners should pay 75% of all road costs, Government the rest. Eastman's: "Their [the railroads'] contentions impress me as being carried to extreme limits." But Railroader Pelley also reminded his hearers why railroad and truck taxes cannot, should...