Word: nicks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dance Director Nick Castle, who runs a school for professional children on the side, heard her improvising on Waitin' for the Train to Come In. He gave her a part in a Christmas revue. Toni stole the show. Later, she appeared in stage shows with Cab Galloway and a broadcast with Eddie Cantor...
Lucky Loophole. Otis & Co. had slipped out of the money-losing deal through a loophole provided in the nick of time by a Philadelphia lawyer named James F. Masterson. The day the underwriters were to have paid K-F for the stock, Masterson had filed suit in Detroit to prevent the stock from being sold, charging that the company had rigged the price of its stock and that the underwriters would make an excessive profit on it. Fortunately for Otis & Co., its contract with K-F provided that such a suit would nullify the deal...
...Nobel Prize Winner Sir Edward Appleton's probings in the upper atmosphere before World War II led in time's nick to Britain's secret weapon...
...Nick Mavrides, Cambridge nightclub operator, had been arrested previously and is still being held for $120,000 bail...
...ancient prerogative, the King shares ownership of Thames swans between Southwark Bridge and Henley with two City companies - the Worshipful Companies of Dyers and Vintners. Each July, in ceremonies known as "swan-upping," swan markers round up the flocks and allocate the young cygnets. One nick is made in the lower bill to mark a Dyers' swan, two for a Vintners'; His Majesty's go nickless...