Word: juiciest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stake was not only a Senator's vengeance but an $8,000-a-year salary (plus two cars and a chauffeur), one of the Senate's juiciest jobs. It is the Sergeant at Arms's duty, besides hunting up quorums, to police the upper chamber, arrange ceremonies, escort Presidents to inaugurations, buy tombstones for Senators buried in the Congressional Cemetery, sell the Senate's waste paper and useless documents and turn the proceeds over to the Treasury. The job is the topmost pinnacle in the eyes of Capitol clerks, pages, policemen and other attaches. Their excitement...
...when the outlook was blackest, short, cocky William S. Jack always knew everything would turn out all right. The worst was nine months ago when the profit-probing Vinson committee rooted out the fantastic salaries and bonuses of Jack & Heintz Inc., catapulted President Jack smack into the biggest and juiciest profit scandal of the year. But last week the scandal was forgotten, and upstart J. & H. was riding high as the world's largest maker of aviation starters and automatic pilots...
Joel Ashley takes a good bite out of the juiciest part, that of Tiny, the cheerful extrovert. Claudia Morgan is somewhat less at home as Judith, though she snaps to life in the last act. Broun would probably get the biggest kick, though. out of the wise-cracking ball players portrayed by Karl Malden, Lewis Charles, and Fred Sherman. They talk his language, and it's the language the audience would have liked to hear more...
...Fight was still over soap, and among the juiciest corners of the U.S. soap market was the all-purpose, bland, white soap that floated.* For years there have been other floating soaps in a small way, but "99-44 100% pure" Ivory has always been synonymous with floating soap to the average U.S. citizen. As far back as 1933, Lever experiments with a "different" floating soap had led them to the U.S. Patent Office. In 1940 the company obtained a patent on a "revolutionary" (and still extremely hush-hush) soapmaking process: a "continuous" manufacturing technique that turned out floating soap...
Ball of Fire (Goldwyn; RKO Radio) is saturated with some of the juiciest, wackiest, solid American slang ever recorded on celluloid. The plot is not as fresh as its idea, but the picture will do until its producer, swivel-tongued Samuel ("Include Me Out") Goldwyn, wins his own lifelong race with the English language...