Word: nicks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nick Schenck kept his mouth shut for six years about this alleged extortion, cheating the Government and the stockholders by deliberately falsifying the record. . . . The film companies paid money to these men, yes. But it was bribery and not extortion...
Varsity: stroke and captain, Schultz Wood, Jr. '45; Dick Hunneman, Jr. '46; 6, Gus Merwin '45; 5, Ted Chadwick, Jr. '45; 5, Nick Viek '46; 3, Bill Stilles '46; 2, Charlie Brown, Jr. '45; bow, John Potter '45; cox Al Petite...
...fighting to make a better and happier world. The Young Soldier thinks that is very nice, wonders how it is to be brought about. He decides to collect his thoughts during a walk. Out of the bosky underbrush pops the Devil in the person of Captain Percy Nick (Per-Cynic). The Devil, Heaven's most unsuccessful politician, laughs at the Young Soldier for worrying about Politician Cripps and at all talk of a better world emerging from the war. "When the devil was sick," he misquotes Rabelais, "the devil a saint would be. When the devil was well...
Once the rigid rules were broken, Speakers were forced to wield power by tact, persuasion and favors. "Nick" Longworth kept a firm grip on the House through shrewd committee maneuvers; Texas' Jack Garner held sway by means of his long seniority and experience...
Although Chick appeared only last fortnight on the radio, he has been around in detective fiction for 40-odd years, as the adopted 17-year-old son of Nick Carter, the Old Master. Nick's present writers, Walter Gibson and Ed Gruskin, are also Chick's. They revived Nick for radio last April. Though on seperate hours (Nick's time is Monday, 9:30 to 10 p.m., WOR-Mutual), Nick and Chick will visit on each other's programs, put their heads together when crime threatens...