Word: letting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cows for years. He kept a horse, too, and it followed him like a big dog. But it was the cows that stirred up the Government. The Bureau of Internal Revenue ruled that Warrington must pay income tax on his milk & butter money, but it wouldn't let him deduct the expense of feeding the cows...
...hours in deep and dependable tones. Topping a 33-ft. granite tower, the $10,000 clock will stand smack in the middle of 2-mi.-high La Paz.* Cracked Buenavista: "What is the use of having a British clock if the man who sets it is a Bolivian? Let us by all means have a Britisher, or at any rate someone not a Bolivian...
Fred Allen gloomily considered his next trip to Hollywood: "Once every four years or so someone calls me up and asks me to do a picture. Four years are up and I suppose it's time . . . They've all been bad so far ... Let's face it. I've never been any good in pictures, but if [the studio] wants...
When they bought the old farm, their friend Carl Van Doren gave them curt advice: "Pave it." Instead they let their next-door neighbor work it; now the place pays. Around home Gould is a relaxed, ruminative, cigarette-puffing host, lets his handsome, smartly dressed wife do much of the talking. The Goulds entertain simply, serve "a" cocktail, and, like a good Journal family, live well within their combined salaries of around $75,000 a year...
...visiting Boston Red Sox treated him with proper respect, crippled or not. Twice he came to bat with runners on base, and a buzz of excitement rippled through Yankee Stadium and down the pitcher's back. Twice he banged in a run. The third time, the crowd let go an angry bellow: the Sox, trying to protect a slim lead, sent him to first base on a pass instead of letting him swing at the ball. Joe scored the run that put the Yankees out in front, anyway...