Word: packed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United Press felt the same way. The U.P. had built Packard's by-line into a big name; but it was a name known more for flamboyance than accuracy. Pack had once summed up his odd philosophy in three sentences which would have horrified the Commission on Freedom of the Press: "If you've got a good story, the important thing is to get it out fast. You can worry about details later. And if you have to send a correction, that will probably make another good story...
Klaus netted an average of 150 marks a day, which might buy a pack of Luckies or all the food on his ration card for one month plus his room rent, or one term's worth of legal training at the University. When professional coal thieves moved in from Hamburg (where competition had grown too heavy and the police too strict), he had a little trouble. The newcomers, working in large groups at freight yards, netted several tons a night and sold them through a central organization at fixed prices. They disliked small-time operators like Klaus, who undersold...
Even the golden robed Princeton swimmers joined in the swell of cheers for Jerry Gorman of the Crimson last Saturday night in the New Haven pool as he led in the pack of Intercollegiate quarter milers to prevent Yale from registering a first in every freestyle event...
Tyrone Power, just home from a few pleasant months in Mexico City, helped wife Annabella pack her bags. "Any discussion of a reconciliation with my husband," recited Annabella precisely to the press, "must wait until my return in the fall." Then she was off to Paris...
Suddenly It's Spring (Paramount) is one of those plump, shiny comedies that Director Mitchell Leisen can pack-and Paramount can crank out-like so many frankfurters. Items: 1) the leading characters, most of whom are presented as nice people, go through their romancing about as honorably as so many rutting hyenas; 2) by glance, leer, double-take and triple-talk, the audience is continually nudged with strong suggestions of amorous hanky-panky; 3) all the bedroom-eyeing is technically codeproof because the two chief romancers are married...