Word: notch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instead of a Freshman issue that savors of lazy Pacific beaches, the Advocate has passed out at registration a magazine of short stories for the most part, but with three poems and a useful bit of prose, that is averagely high quality, yet lacks anything top-notch...
...spite of the wheezy Ministry. It was due to two enterprising men who bored from within: long, lean, vigorous Sidney L. Bernstein, boss of a chain of 35 Granada theatres, and imaginative Jack Beddington, former Shell Oil publicity man who vitalized British poster and advertising methods by hiring top-notch artists to paint Shell...
General Almazán was obviously getting ready to push the shaky civil peace a notch closer to open war. Ever since election day he had left his followers dangling and disorganized while he "vacationed" in Havana, then in Guatemala. Fortnight ago he was still on tour, turned up in Mobile, two days later in Baltimore, where he took a modest apartment on quiet 32nd Street with his wife and 17-year-old daughter. He insisted that he was just a tourist. He visited friends, walked in Wyman Park, went to the movies, read U. S. and Mexican newspapers, answered...
Vigorous Detroiters swarmed to the opening past windows showing mannequins modeled after Detroit socialites, saw live Saks mannequins parade samples of the new shop's $1,000,000 stock of top-notch gowns, furs, jewels. They bought $30,000 worth -a fine day's business. Mindful of his Hollywood debut two years ago when police had to hold back the crowds and resuscitate fainting women, Adam Gimbel used no initial advertising. Nonetheless, the Detroit papers were kind to him. One reason for that may have been that he had made a deal with the Fisher brothers. His shop...
...Annenberg, one of the most corrupt-one of the most corrupt-one of the most corrupt-one of the most corrupt-one of the. . . ." Horrified, a studio employe grabbed the phonograph arm, moved it back a notch or two. Promptly into the same groove went the voice of Harold Ickes: "Moe Annenberg, one of the most corrupt-one of the most corrupt-one of the most corrupt-one of the most corrupt -one. . . ." Although WXYZ immediately aired an explanation, some people in Detroit were convinced that Secretary Ickes stuttered...