Word: nicking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flanagan attempted to steal the election from me," Sullivan said, "only I caught him in the nick of time." Remarking that he found the polling place in the fire station in a "frightful mess," he said, "there is where they would have tried to steal the votes...
...case) were dilettanti like Princess Kropotkin, Gelett Burgess, Deems Taylor, Lillian Hellman, Margaret Bourke-White. They were given to sniffing up recondite alleys: Lillian Hellman was the only one to show on-the-scent results, solving the mystery of Napoleon's razor in a nick. This month the show tried picking its detectives from fans who write in. More like flatfeet than fancy-dans, the unpaid fans not only proved uniformly baffled, but dull. So last Sunday a group of experts from Hollywood appeared. One, Mystery Writer Harry Kurnitz, solved the mystery of the March of Death right...
Isolationist Senators were whetting their knives for his "Morgan Board." By disbanding it, minimizing its report, and chiding its sponsor, Louis Johnson, the President in time's nick snatched a deadly weapon from his foes in the Senate. About all they had left to hit him with then was the reasonable supposition that Big Steel's Stettinius will be back on the pre-war scene in Washington at some more politic time...
Behind the elegant veneer of Bucharest society, Rumanian politics are murderously tough. The assassination of King Carol II, for instance, was recently all set to take place at a swank turf classic, according to Bucharest police. Nabbed by detectives in time's nick, the nonchalant plotters were said to have been caught preparing hand grenades, boldly confessing, "We were going to toss them into the Royal Box while everyone was watching the big race of the day." Significantly, Lloyd's of London not long ago refused to write insurance on the life of strong and healthy Rumanian Premier...
...York City's Mayor, New York's Governor. But Republican politicians have long known there was one office Nicholas Murray Butler coveted. Biggest Butler boom for President came in 1920, when his supporters, to bring him down to the voters' level, coined the slogan: "Pick Nick for a Picnic in November...