Word: nicks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pick Nick." A New Jersey merchant's son who did his childhood prattling in Greek, Murray Butler wasted no time. Graduating from high school at 13, he entered Columbia three years later, soon became its biggest undergraduate "bun-yanker" (honor-grabber). At 20 he graduated as top man in his class, at 21 acquired his M.A., at 22 his Ph.D. He promptly became a Columbia teacher and founded Teachers College in his spare time...
...party man from the time he went as a delegate to the 1888 Republican National Convention. In 1912 he became the G.O.P. vice-presidential candj-date and went down to defeat with Taft. In 1920 he made a bold bid for the Presidential nomination with the slogan: "Pick Nick for a Pic-Nic in November." He got only 69 votes...
...Nick Comfort, Dean of Oklahoma School of Religion: "Many [religious leaders] are waiting for Jesus to come and put an end to the whole damned mess. When that happens they expect to be on the job to sing the doxology...
Crown Princess Ingrid of Denmark wheeled her eleven-month-old child, Princess Benedikte, along Copenhagen's Amaliegade, leading to the royal palace, was caught between an exchange of bullets by Danish collaborationists and patriots, ducked to safety in the nick of time...
Having Wonderful Crime, in keeping with its title, is broader and dizzier than the new Thin Man, rather less shrewd and professional, but on the whole just about as entertaining. Whereas Thin's Nick & Nora Charles are a first-rate detective and a grade-A, sport-model wife, Crime's three amateurs (Pat O'Brien, George Murphy and Carole Landis) are cheerful dopes. Once they find Magician George Zucco daggered in his trunk in a resort hotel, they hightail off after every red herring in sight. Nicest character: a daft old dowager who likes to write gigantic...