Word: nut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Success," Maurice Chevalier confided to Columnist Elsa Maxwell, "is like a squirrel. Try to catch it and it runs away. Lie down in the sun, close your eyes, and hold out a nut-and perhaps...
...Nut Tighteners? A few days later, when the Chemical Society held a second regional meeting at St. Louis, its president, Dr. Charles Allen Thomas of Monsanto Chemical Co., gave his flock a timely talking to. He did not come right out and call the chemists dodos, but he warned them that overspecialization (the nemesis of the dodo) might make their science stagnate...
...have transferred the techniques employed in the mass production of goods to the study of those fundamental phenomena which are the wellsprings out of which man's mastery of his environment flows. We have failed to see the great difference between physical and intellectual production. Are we becoming nut tighteners and wrench wielders . . . strait-jacketed . . . within narrow disciplines...
...Loew-supported bottom fell out of Screen Plays, Inc. That night, trying to drown their sorrows in gin, the partners succeeded in refloating their enterprise on a tipsy wave of optimism. In four days of desperate rewriting, Screen Plays, Inc. shelled $339,000 off the picture's "nut," without sacrificing the essentials of the story. Loew agreed to stay in. In September, So This Is New York finally went into production-and came out $30,000 under the final budget. Even silent Stan Kramer got off a bon mot: "Now we can put our ulcers in escrow...
Well over 100 people gathered in Kirkland Junior Common Room last night heard speakers at the tenth career conference turn over the possibilities of "government" as a profession, and finally decide that like almost all the other careers discussed in the current series, it is a tough nut to crack...