Word: pal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon as Harry Truman had persuaded his pal of Senate days to make the switch, a succession of baffling snubs began...
...barracks walls. After Bikini it was found chalked on the battleship Pennsylvania. One of numerous G.I. theories about Kilroy: he was an AWOL infantryman, trying to let his commanding officer know where he was. But an A.A.F. sergeant, Francis J. Kilroy of Everett, Mass., said not at all: a pal of his had started it just...
...Britain-born Brooklyn and Broadway character, Murray Garsson had been arrested half a dozen times for crimes ranging from plain robbery to evasion of corporation laws. His only conviction was for speeding (sentence suspended). He had been a pal of New York City's gang kingpins Dutch Schultz and Owney Madden, was suspected of being their partner in illicit breweries. The FBI had Garsson down as suspect of arranging protection for big-time bootleggers...
...almost wholly to increased labor costs) while revenues have increased only 12%. Distributors have cold-shouldered efforts to increase rentals, which are still at the 1940 rate. Full-length cartoons, for all the fanfare about them, have only dug the hole deeper. As a result, most cartoonmakers (e.g., Lantz, Pal, Quimby, Selzer) are wondering how long they...
...asked Orson Welles "Isn't it about time you made up your mind whether you're Senator Pepper, D. W. Griffith, or Kupperman the Quiz Kid? . . . You've been away too long, Doubledome." In another piece he gave the back of his hand to an old pal: ". . . Gary Grant has been putting the blast on the kids who pester him for his autograph. I don't get it. When I first met him he was a Coney Island stilt-walker and his square monicker was Archie Leach. . . . When he pushes past those spangle-starved kids...