Word: papered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just as loyal to my military aide as I am to the high brass, and I want you to distinctly understand that any S.O.B. who thinks he can cause any of those people to be discharged by me by some smart-aleck statement over the air or in the paper, he has got another think coming...
...Foundation (for the destitute and aged) rushed in bedding and food, the esquiroles (squirrels, i.e., strikebreakers) kept the newspaper blackout from being complete. But the single editions they turned out contained little more than cheesecake pictures and ready-made material including an editorial entitled "Three Years of Legality." Neither paper mentioned the strike...
...paper headlined the news: HER SUICIDE: HIS FORTUNE. The suicide was in oils, a painting of a fat and mostly naked Dido, stabbing herself with a sword.* The Oxfordshire lady who owned it figured it was not "a picture anyone would want about the house," sold it to an antique dealer for 50 shillings ($10). The dealer traded it to a salesman for a $56 typewriter, and it was the salesman, a bustling Briton named Henry Eric Wells, who made a small fortune last week from Dido's suicide. He showed the painting to an art expert, discovered...
...despairing of quiet, picked up the paper and found himself reading the sports section. Then the Great Thing happened. It was a small headline: "Tribe, Sox Head South for Pre-Season Training." Very quietly he picked up a shattered half-ski and hefted it; cocking his wrists, he saw little white balls, not flakes, bouncing off the left field wall...
...spite of Harvard's paper superiority and recent improvement, tonight's game might easily be the same sort of battle since the varsity has been slow-starting in all of its recent games...