Word: nails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foes hoped to nail his political hide to that barn door, they reckoned without the old Tennessean. To Chicago he went last week with figures in his fist and proceeded to belabor the short-winded old Smoot-Hawley protective tariff scheme, which since 1930 (when it threw up the highest international trade barriers in U. S. history) has lost some of its fighting trim...
...crucial series, Our Boys had split a double-header with the Cards. The second day, beloved Bucky Walters, the renovated third-baseman who had pitched 27 victories for Cincinnati this year, suffered a 4-to-o shutout. Then, on the third day, came Our Boys' last chance to nail the pennant in front of the homefolks. With three games left to play they could still clinch it in Pittsburgh, by winning two games of their final series against the Pirates. But the Reds had been shut out in the last two games, had failed to score...
...Shirley Temple are members, and full membership is earned by sending in for tokens of every product Uncle Don plugs. One season he plugged 14, and full-fledged members eventually cost their parents a pretty penny. But parents tolerate him because he inveighs against such social errors as nail biting, gulping, temper, socking, preaches a series of corrective little stories involving two hypothetical and unruly tikes named Willapuss-Wallapuss and Suzan-Beduzin. Somehow all this is as beguiling to children as bubblegum...
...snork is Uncle Don. When he was a boy (Howard Rice, son of a horseshoe nail salesman), his pals in St. Joseph, Mich, called him "Punk." Now he is a fattish, fiftyish, rheumy-eyed, flashy-dressing showman. As a kid, he learned enough piano chords by ear to get some local esteem as a musician. Because he found he could play the piano standing on his head, he became Don Carney, the Trick Pianist of vaudeville. He got into radio 14 years ago. One day, on a half-hour's notice, he was assigned to do a children...
Writer E. P. Holton . . . hits the nail right on the head. . . . Great Britain, no doubt, would readily agree to this method of paying those old war debts. We know she wants to pay but just never seems to be able to get the money...