Word: leash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Indeed it was. Eighteen of the 20 unions with which the Cemmunist-dominated C.G.T. had launched its political strike drive were partly or wholly back at work. Even the two unions on which the Red grip was strongest-the miners and dockers-were straining at the leash...
Actor Basil Rathbone, 55, came a painful cropper. His black police dog, Maritza, snapped the leash while the two were strolling in Manhattan's Central Park; Maritza leaped a high wall and dashed into Fifth Avenue traffic; Rathbone tried to follow suit, fell over the wall, broke his left wrist, and fainted. Skipped: one performance of the Broadway hit, The Heiress. Thereafter he villainized with his arm in a cast...
Pitfalls of Drink. In Roslyn, N.Y., a stranger in a bar handed Otto Steih Jr. one end of a leash, excused himself for a moment. Still waiting: Otto and the raccoon...
Donelli likes the label of underdog, and, if he has anything to say about it, that is the tag that his Terriers are going to wear out onto Soldiers Field tomorrow. It is improbable though, that he will find Dick Harlow on the other end of the leash. There are too many gridiron "giants" still shaking the cobwebs from their heads after dismissing Donelli with a paternal pat on the head...
...Young first falls for Jane Greer, but abjectly drops her when his rich wife (Rita Johnson) yanks at the leash. She yanks him from Manhattan to Los Angeles and he tries to play safe in the new job she buys him. Unfortunately, Susan Hayward glides out of a filing cabinet, and in no time at all he is a dishonest man again. Again his wife calls him to heel; this time they move to a ranch. There isn't even a telephone and Mr. Young can't stand it. Because of his complicated efforts to run away...