Word: nash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paid only $28,120,908 in income taxes. Stude-baker's first-quarter deliveries rose one-third to a record of 30,298 cars and trucks while net profits dropped from $512,000 to $180,000. But some automakers bucked the trend. Nash-Kelvinator-which pioneered low refrigerator prices in 1939, followed through with a low-priced auto in 1940-saw record sales lift profits from $383,000 to $1,041,000 (best since...
Tufts' veteran mentor, Judge Kenneth Nash, who has coached at Medford for 21 years, will field a team of seven letter men and two very good Sophomores, Zake Shapiro, at first and Howie Redgate at short. However the Jumbos sorely miss last year's ace burley, Hatch, and have lost four out of their five matches thus far this season...
...write as tenderly about his own children (see his Rainy Day} as any other man living. Nash does most of his writing, however, in the guise of a sensitive prune. He speaks for the cartoon 20th-century American male-the subway-ridden goofus whose personality is deeply engraved on his cigaret lighter, and whose most ambitious ethical concept is "if it's trite, it's right." Nash knows his American civilization, and he can write about it like an efficiency expert in baggy pants. His light verse is a remarkable rhetorical invention. Where McCord, a traditionalist, makes...
...Nash is able to make sharp practical recoveries from such nonsense...
agayin and agayin and agayin. The Face Is Familiar is the definitive omnibus of Nash's best work. In that part of it which isn't coy or silly the book pioneers a yawping American humor homely enough to make the Statue of Liberty grin on her pedestal...