Word: neatest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cards' "Harry the Cat" Brecheen). He thinks his hitting this year is due partly to being an everyday player, partly to some advice about his batting stance from brother Dixie (when they meet around the circuit, they usually discuss their Alabama hardware business). One of Harry's neatest tricks this year has been hitting a solid .438 in four games against Cincinnati's sensational, 16-straight Pitcher Ewell Blackwell. Says Harry: "I guess I've just been lucky...
First of the fashions to be shown, "one of the neatest necklines in years," came out with a request for the judges to take a second glance. None of them ever finished the first. "Lovely" breathed Mr. Champagne. "Yoah, but how much does it cost?" asked Vaughn...
Ultimately the judges wee forced to choose one afternoon and one evening dress. "The neatest neck-line in years" won the former contest, while a costume entitled "Just right for a woodland nymph" copped the latter. The pajamas "to slip into after a swim," lost out primarily because nobody could figure out when they should be worn--although Vaughn had a knowing look...
Said Walter Ross, appointed '4/3 new publisher: "We will have a definite editorial line to which our writers will hew." But getting all 363 to hew to the line would be the neatest trick of '47 or any other year...
Marshall scored his neatest diplomatic touchdown when Molotov accused the U.S. of holding back reparations from Germany. The Russian reported (from a document Andrei Vishinsky handed him) that Mr. John Green, of the U.S. Commerce Department, had publicly emphasized the great value of German patents which the U.S. had obtained...