Word: nailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...direct result of the interest of people who looked behind the jump-jump and the jive, and the screeching horns and shimmying drummers, but it still has a long way to go. Writing in the Sunday Herald Tribune a couple of weeks ago, Benny Goodman hit the proverbial nail on the axiomatic head when he said, "The music the word 'swing' stands for in the minds of serious jazz musicians has hardly begun to live in this country...
...dawn one morning customs officers gave chase to a car, ran it to earth near Scotch Town in County Tyrone. They seized 1,000 powder puffs, 3,245 hair nets, 900 combs, 63 dozen handkerchiefs, hundreds of bottles of perfume. Other booty: lipsticks, nail files, cigaret lighters, 30,000 clothes pegs, onions, a crate of chocolates smuggled over the border in a lorry loaded with chicken crates...
...Leaguer's notebook. But the sterilities of Elyot, the smolderings of Eden, above all the nervous, bogus charm and climacteric rut of the mother, are very real indeed; and scene after scene is worked out with exactness and subtlety which no second-string novelist can scent, far less nail to paper...
...Grover Hall who broke the power of the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama. Back in 1927, when both Alabama Senators were members of the Klan, and Governor Bibb Graves was inclined to ignore frequent floggings, Editor Hall tore into the Klan tooth & nail, ended by forcing Klansmen to unmask. For his attacks on racial and religious intolerance he won a Pulitzer Prize...
Today the Old Farmer's yellow paper cover, drilled for a kitchen nail, is the same as in 1792. Although it now lacks the crotchety personal stamp of Founder Thomas, no longer carries temperance articles (with pictures of a sinister nurse mixing gin with the milk to pacify the baby), the Old Farmer has better than 100,000 subscribers (mostly New Englanders), from Bangor, Me. to Hong Kong. These ardent readers feared that the Old Farmer's 1940 issue would be its last. After the death of its fourth copyright owner, Bostonian Carroll J. Swan, in 1935, Little...