Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...m a skipper. I look at all the ads first, turn to Sport, and then I'm off straight through the magazine...
...Town Bar, the bartender stared ruefully at his customers and grumbled: "I haven't sold enough whisky since the first of the year to bother taking the corks out of the bottles. Just beer-beer and more beer." His business was off 40%. "I'm better off than some of the boys," he added, "because I'm just around the corner from the Michigan unemployment bureau. I get a chance to cash their checks...
Jackson, like the nation, was probably hollering more than it hurt. One cab driver wailed, "I'm slowly starving to death"-but he was making $45 a week. One shopkeeper summed it up: "Business is only fair, but it could be a lot worse." And out on Falihee Road, a gear-cutting company was building a new $4,000,000 plant. That meant 400 new jobs, when it was completed...
...least that's what they call themselves," a reader in Bethel, Conn, wrote last week to the New York Herald Tribune. "What is a liberal? A man who wants . . . higher taxes and more schools or lower taxes and more business, more government or less government? . . . I'm confused." The Trib, which cherishes its liberalism as much as its Republicanism, passed the question to its readers. Over a hundred definitions poured in, and a few shed a little light on one of the most overworked words in the modern vocabulary. Some serious and not so serious samples...
...West, who has not denied being 56, was still having trouble trying to settle down. "I'm still looking for the right man," she confided to the New York Post's Columnist Earl Wilson. "My trouble is, I find so many right ones, it's hard to decide...