Word: leash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What is more, Dolan added, seersucker coats cut a fine figure in his home town of Los Angeles, where a woman with lounging pajamas held up by the leash of a Pekinese dog attracts less attention than one of his striped coats...
...some way which Pascal could not quite fathom, the bohemian tradition was being betrayed. It was a tradition epitomized, in the Left Bank's 19th Century heyday, by Author Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, who used to lead a live lobster around on a leash. "He does not bark," Barbey solemnly explained, "and he has the wisdom...
While the "drone" circles or dives at the end of its radio leash, a television tube, like an unwinking eye, watches the instrument panel, sends the readings of every dial to the screen in the radio truck. Other instruments send their readings direct on their own radio channels, recording on a moving paper strip such things as the flutter of the plane's wings, or the changing strain on its surfaces...
Said Farrell: "I have [never] written one line which a fair-minded human being can term 'pornographic'. . . . For some years now, the prejudiced forces of censorship have been straining at the leash in the United States in order to begin a new witch hunt against serious and honest writing. These forces [may] begin a reactionary campaign of legal book lynching in this country. Your Government . . . can well provide the necessary example...
Victor Moore, the theater's fatted Caspar Milquetoast, threw a stick in Manhattan's Central Park for his 2½-lb. Pomeranian. The Pomeranian went after the stick, and Actor Moore got a summons for letting the beastie off its leash. In an old revue sketch Moore played the role of a man who spits in a subway, fights a $2 fine, and winds up in the shadow of the gallows. In real life Moore just paid his $2 fine in court and tripped away. "If they issue summonses for dogs of this type," he croaked, "they should...