Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thousands more knock on agency doors every year, driven by their own ambitions, by unscrupulous "modeling schools" which promise to turn them into cover girls in six easy lessons, or by relentless mothers. But disillusion awaits them...
...G.O.P. had a case to make, and in the Senate Ohio's Taft made it. His fellow Ohioan, Clarence Brown, called him "Mr. Republican." To Big Labor and the Truman Democrats he was both a leading Republican and an uncompromising obstacle in their paths: they were determined to knock...
...shrewd prodding, Carol had apparently gotten Janney to do some talking. With carefully culled excerpts from her conversations with him, as verified only by Carol, the defense tried to prove that Janney was emphatically prejudiced ("Those goddam Communists-If anyone ever mentions Marxism-Leninism to me, I'll knock his block off"). They contended he was determined to find the defendants guilty ("Whatever the verdict is, it will be appealed and appealed...
...celebrate its 25th birthday last week, the Saturday Review of Literature (circ. 92,000) rounded up a literary team of heavy hitters led by Robert Sherwood, John P. Marquand, Lewis Gannett, Christopher Morley, Maxwell Anderson. They obligingly tried to knock the cover off the ball, but it was SRL that slugged out the homer, circulation-wise. Even at the new price of 20?, up a nickel, it sold out a record press run of 150,000 copies in three days. Then it ran off another 10,000 copies, and contracted with a publisher to bring out the star-studded issue...
...Francisco, and the traditional but gadgety Gerholz Community Homes in Flint, Mich, account for 80% of production. Biggest of these merchants, Levitt & Sons, has raised a whole town (Levittown, pop. 27,850) of almost identical $7,990 bungalows on the flat potato fields of Long Island. The Levitt boys knock a new house together every 16 minutes, adorn their latest model with such creature comforts as fireplaces as well as modern touches, e.g., picture windows and movable walls that double as closets...