Word: lid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Competition Helps. John Cuneo is still little more than a name to retail merchants, is little better known to most Chicagoans. He dodges publicity, keeps the lid on any airing of his business affairs...
...know what your excuse is for running that awful stuff. . . . You say that is free speech. . . . Well, I'll bet you if you knew what your readers really think of Pegler, you'd drop him like a hot stove lid. If you would put the matter to a vote...
...there have been rumors of monkey-business on college courts, but only Dr. Forrest C. ("Phog") Allen, outspoken University of Kansas coach, had said anything out loud. Last October Phog Allen roared that he knew of two cases where college players were bribed to throw games. Now that the lid had blown off in Brooklyn, everyone tried to talk at once...
Jumping the Gun. Newspapers had known of the desertions all along. But censorship had requested silence until those troops who did sail reached Britain. Last week, Toronto's impatient (and Government-baiting) Globe & Mail jumped the gun: "This newspaper . . . cannot . . . accept the censors' directions." After that the lid...
...make his trip worthwhile, Franklin Roosevelt would have to come home with some firm commitments, some firm promises on these and many other major issues. They were delicate enough to make any politician plead for silence, at least until the meeting had ended. After that, the lid would be off, whether the President liked...