Word: lid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wheeler captured the U. S. Senate seat he has since retained. Bounding Burt was hot stuff from the start. In late 1923, as his colleague Walsh lifted the lid of the G. 0. P.'s Teapot Dome, Senator Wheeler began to pry into the man who made Warren G. Harding Pres ident : Attorney General Harry Daugherty. Daugherty's FBI agents toothcombed Montana for Wheeler dirt; finding none, they made some, concocted a charge that Wheeler had used his Senatorial influence to obtain illegal oil leases for a client. After waiting a year for the case to come...
Saturday night in Cambridge: the lid's off--that is, till twelve o'clock. A week of regimented hours--nine to five for the salesgirl; afternoon labs for the chem concentrator--fades into the past. And only the night remains--one sharp, clear moment filled with the smile of girls and the hurry of feet. The Square is a whirling top. Buses are leaving every minute: what will you have? The world is yours: Zero Hereford, The Folies Bergere, or just Belmont. Traffic on Boylston Street is stalled. Blow your horn, blow: Saturday night waits...
Patient, white-haired Cordell Hull is like a cook trying to watch too many pots. Last week, while he was anxiously brooding over his simmering reciprocal trade treaties, another pot boiled over and blew the lid off. From the Associated Press came a new version of the first seizure of U. S. mails on transatlantic Clippers landing at Bermuda. According to the story, when Captain Charles A. Lorber refused to let the British censor board his plane, the censor whistled up a boatload of marines armed with rifles with fixed bayonets. There are times for heroes, times for diplomats. Forty...
...Tyrolean etcher, Peter Fingesten grew up in the litter of a studio. In his teens he turned to sculpture, wrangled with his teachers at the Berlin Academy for a couple of years before striking out on his own at 16. His sculptural characteristics: eyes sealed shut without any lid line showing, mouths that curve sinuously downward. A medium-sized concrete piece, practical Peter Fingesten figures, costs him only 50? for cement, 80? for other materials...
...they finally decided to have civil-service examination for the six candidates. Best guess was that Dr. Wood would star in the exam. Whether he would be appointed no one could say. Certain it was that Los Angeles doctors, fed up with political fights, were ready to blow the lid off County Hospital...