Word: nipping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Theatre last week stepped a round-faced, grey-haired, solid-shouldered man to become Mayor of Minneapolis. He was Alexander Gilberg ("Buzz") Bainbridge, a political novice, looking older and wiser than his 47 years. As a Republican he had just defeated Farmer-Laborite Mayor William A. Anderson in a nip & tuck election. Mayor Anderson had kept Minneapolis from seeing Crazy Quilt, Fanny Brice's raw revue. He had vetoed the city's beer ordinance, sent citizens to St. Paul for Sunday drinks. Many a Minneapolitan, weary of reform, turned hopefully to "Buzz" Bainbridge and he did not disappoint...
...alcoholic pain to go down the Bay and welcome Waldo, champion wrestling bear. Jolly John's party has the city in its bag but only a slim margin of control on the Board of Aldermen, whose president, Harrie Satchells, is after the mayoralty. The campaign is a humdinger, nip & tuck all the way. When Satchells at one meeting produces an inflated rubber cartoon of Holtsapple and lets the air out as he asks it embarrassing questions, he is one up. Jolly John (aping Big Bill Thompson's famed performances with jackasses et al.) evens things up by leading...
...Hampshire, Senator George Higgins Moses was easily renominated by Republicans. In November he will oppose Democrat Fred Brown, onetime Governor, now Public Service Commissioner. Their race is expected to be nip & tuck as Nominee Brown is an extraordinary vote catcher...
...producers. For him is being used the claim that he is Georgia's most distinguished statesman at the U. S. Capitol. He made a hit when instead of using his Congressional frank to save money, he mailed out campaign literature marked "postage paid." The primary race is considered nip & tuck. Impartial House observers rate him thus: An able, experienced legislator above the average in political pluck and national outlook; a conservative House leader who wins wide personal applause even in a losing fight; a Georgian with the best political tradition of his State in his blood whose legislative enterprise...
...good. It has not done Homer Vondorn's marital relations any good either. After a session in the Observatory his fat wife Georgianna, wearing a dress of blue georgette and a choker of garnets, is too great a comedown from the stars. To ease his troubles he takes nip by nip to drink. In the middle of a nightmare of domestic infelicity and over work he wakes up to find he has tuberculosis...