Word: lemming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grim reminder came from WPB. Rubber, which had almost been forgotten in the uproar, might make the gasoline prob-lem academic. At the rate people had been riding around before gas rationing began, rubber was wearing out at the rate of 3½% a month. For the sake of rubber, if not for the sake of gas itself, the whole country is likely soon to face gas rationing. Like the East, it will probably grouse a bit and chisel a bit, for men do not like to have their habits forcibly changed. But in no other country in the world...
...sank $30,000 in the Brown Bomber softball team; to please another, he sank $42,000 in the Brown Bomber Chicken Shack, a Detroit eatery. He has been known to pay a check for $1,000 after his "secretary" (another pal) entertained some frisky friends in a Har lem cabaret...
...friend and confidant of Big-Navy men in Washington is the New York Times's Correspondent Leland C. ("Lem") Speers. One morning last week the Times headlined a dispatch from Mr. Speers: VAST SECRET FLEET IN JA PAN REPORTED. The story reported what has long been on public record: that Japan is building three to four big battleships, somewhere between 7,000 and 12,000 tons heavier than the biggest (33,400 tons) in the U. S. Navy. The news in Lem Speers's yarn was that Japan had speeded up construction of its giants, that "the Japanese...
...Crimson marksmen excelled individually as well as collectively. Meyers of Northeastern was high man with 276 points, and Bedworth of Yale was third with 275. Captain Lem Hyde, with 275, Slim Goldberg with 274 and Les Rusoff with 273, all, of Harvard, however, became the other three of the top fie sharpshooters. Diz Dunbar, 266, and Bill Cooper, 260, were the other Crimson shooters, while Ted Miller and Larry Shaul acted as alternates. Next year's captain and letter winners will be announced later...
...gallon hats, a case of canned corn, had watched the dance of the Nez Percé Indians and had been serenaded in Portland, Ore., by a fife & drum corps of Civil War veterans whose leader was 95. His secretary, yclept Lemoyne Jones in the effete East, became plain Lem Jones as soon as he was west of the mountains. Like all Presidential candidates, Candidate Dewey came back with fine words to say for the strong, intelligent and courageous people he had seen on his junket. He was still in the mood of his Minneapolis speech two months ago when...