Word: nicks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London stage, Noel Coward, acting in his latest play-with-music, Conversation Piece, fell gravely ill, insisted on finishing his part. Afterward surgeons performed an appendectomy in what they called "the nick of time." Dodging newshawks in California Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt told her breathless pursuers: "If I had charge of the Dillinger search, I would call off the police and send reporters after him?they would be sure to find...
...beginning of this picture, Nick Charles (William Powell) says to one of his favorite bartenders: "A dry martini should be shaken to waltz time." This conceit is the most disputable bit of deductive reasoning which Nick Charles executes in the course of The Thin Man. A retired detective, in Manhattan for a holiday with his charming wife (Myrna Loy), he finds himself drawn by circumstance into trying to solve the sudden disappearance of an eccentric inventor, whose mistress has been found murdered. When the inventor's watch-chain is discovered in the dead woman's hand, when...
Hanfstaengl, who apparently had missed his last chance of catching the last ship that would bring him to America in time for the reunion, stowed away on a mail-plane and climed aboard the Europa just in the nick of time...
...sleep; in Portland, Ore. In 1906, Fielder (his real name) Jones managed Chicago's "hitless wonders" White Sox team (batting average: .229), won a World Series from the Chicago Cubs whose infield included Tinker and Evers and Chance. Famed as an umpire baiter, he taught players such as Nick Altrock. Ed Walsh, Yip Owens, to steal bases, sacrifice. ¶Died. Horace Atlee Mann. 65, lawyer, politician; of heart disease; in Nashville, Tenn. Horace Mann was credited in 1928 with winning many a southern vote for Herbert Hoover, distributing anti-Catholic propaganda against Candidate Alfred E. Smith. When Herbert Hoover...
Obviously Nemesis is right in saying that the stuffed shirts of present day corruption don't mind any verbal formulation that he or I can invent. Neither Nick Butler nor any other sustainer of Monty Norman minds being addressed as venomous serpent or by any other 18th century pejorative, but they run silent from INFORMATION...