Word: juiciest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Juiciest plum is Tracy's role as Arnold Boult (in the play it was Holt), a self-made, Canadian-born tycoon whose greatest pleasure in life lies in spoiling his only son. Young Edward, who never appears in the film, is actually an ingenious peg on which to hang a full-length portrait of his egotistical father. Boult's love for his son is really love of self; his determination to make the world Edward's oyster thinly disguises his own appetite for power...
Texas' Governor Beauford Jester was so boiling mad he told newsmen, "You can't print what I think." The underwater lands are one of the juiciest holdings of the Texas General Land Office, which uses the proceeds to help finance the state's schools; 1947's royalties from submerged oil drilling were $14,800,000. Just before Tom Clark filed suit, the board had collected $2,055,709 from private drillers for leases on 79,000 underwater acres...
This week the Dominion's juiciest diplomatic assignment was still going beg ging. At Lake Success, until a willing and acceptable man is found, the job of representing Canada would probably be filled by External Affairs Minister Louis St. Laurent. In Ottawa, the Prime Minister, behind a screen of refrigerated secretaries, said nothing...
...firm tenfold in the last eight years, likes to dismiss his many big operations (in hotels, theaters, apartments, oil wells, piers, night clubs, a small railroad, and smaller shopping centers) as "making grapefruit out of lemons." This grapefruit, which he hopes to pluck by 1948, would be his juiciest...
...tabloid New York Daily News flatters the common man by cheering for commonness; consequently it has the largest newspaper audience in the U.S. The News scorns reformers, and flaunts the details of Manhattan's juiciest scandals with a self-righteousness that does not conceal a smirk. Its general attitude toward manners & morals is the tough kid's jeer: if they're good they're probably phoney and certainly ridiculous...