Word: limbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Times's Turner Catledge seized on the President's remark about "late spring," wrote a hot-&-heavy story that this was prime evidence that Franklin Roosevelt hoped still to be in the White House in the spring of 1945. No other correspondent went out on this limb. Most took it as a tip that another Roosevelt-Churchill meeting is on soon...
Betty Smith, author of the best-seller A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and her publishers, Harper & Brothers, had a quarter-million dollar libel suit grafted on them by Miss Smith's cousin, Mrs. Sadie Grandner of Brooklyn. Perilously perched on the legal limb was a character in the novel, one Aunt Sissie, who once worked in a rubber factory, had eight stillborn children, called all three of her husbands John. "Public scandal, infamy, and disgrace," claimed 60-year-old Cousin Sadie, who has been called Sissie for some 50 years, once worked in a rubber factory, had four shortlived...
There have been likable kid plays (e.g., the current Kiss and Tell) that have left a young girl's reputation hanging on a hickory limb, only to show in the end that she didn't go near the water. Such plays are made ingratiating by the author's tact and talent. But Wallflower's playwrights are unfortunately lacking in real...
Chicago's State Street mobs were literally a danger to life & limb: one shopper clocked the time it took her to navigate a twelve-foot vestibule leading into Carson Pirie Scott & Co. Result: 25 minutes flat. According to one description of Marshall Field & Co.'s escalators: "They look like the overhead chute at the stockyards during a heavy run of cattle." And the stampede was mostly for high-priced goods: furs, jewelry, $300-and-up sets of china, antiques, fine furniture, draperies and rugs...
Both U.S. and British official observers think that Churchill is out on a limb with his protege King George. But the Prime Minister refused to budge last week. Said he: "Until the Greek people can express their will in conditions of freedom and tranquility, it is the settled policy of the British Government to support the King of the Hellenes, who is at once our loyal ally and the constitutional head of the Greek state...