Word: mend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Umbrellas to Mend. While the Commerce Committee was giving them what they wanted, a Judiciary subcommittee headed by Brooklyn's anti-Fair Trade Emanuel Celler held hearings on a similar bill. Witness Rivers Peterson, managing director of the National Retail Hardware Association, cried that the small retailer is entitled to protection "from exploitation on the part of the predatory price-cutter," just as labor is protected by minimum-wage laws. Retorted the American Farm Bureau Federation's Matt Trigg: Such devices provide "an umbrella for the inefficient" and are inconsistent with a free, competitive economy. Echoed...
...gave him 25 years at hard labor. Schleicher went to work driving rivets. He spoiled a rivet and a guard hit him with a chain. It broke Schleicher's nose, jaw and-ankle. The Russians sent him to a hospital, and when his ankle refused to mend, they shipped him home. Schleicher got back to Germany in 1948 to find that his wife had remarried and that he was officially dead. He retired to another hospital to have his leg amputated...
Radioman Hofheinz broadcast a defense of the editors, added: "There may be those who say that Hoiles is a harmless crackpot. A man backed with a reputed $20 million and a chain of newspapers cannot be classed as a harmless crackpot." It looked as if Hoiles might have to mend his editorials, if he wanted to stay in the valley...
Lord Finchley tried to mend the Electric Light...
...young Stapley turns out to be no blackguard after all. He is really a black-sheep nobleman, willing to mend his ways for love of Sally. He tells Laughton triumphantly that the scheme has failed and "there's nothing you can do about it." Patiently, as to a child, hitting each word with malevolent emphasis, Laughton drawls: "How wrong you are." As long as a piece of fiendishness remains to be done, and one that demands lip-quivering, eye-rolling relish, never underestimate the power of Actor Laughton...