Word: passingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fourth interest in the imported stallion Blenheim II (Whirlaway's daddy). But a basic ingredient in the Wright recipe is his trainers, the Jones boys-old Ben and young Jimmy. Rival trainers sometimes suspect the Joneses of getting results by mirrors and magic. But they are willing to pass their secret on to anybody. Says Jimmy: "You figure not only on a horse's speed, stamina and breeding, but on his personality-they're like humans, you know...
Since 250,000 pesos would circulate in Janesville, Parker figured that every man, woman & child would have some pass through his hands...
...Takers. New Jersey's crinkly-haired Representative Fred Hartley, co-author of the Act, was its only vocal defender during the week. He lambasted labor's "brazen effrontery" and called for a congressional investigation of "any and all efforts to by-pass the law, whether by unions working alone or in conspiracy with employers." Employers perked up their ears and wondered what sort of merry-go-round they were on now. Many, for the sake of labor peace, had taken their contract cue from Co-Author Bob Taft. He had found "no illegality" in the coal operators...
...Jake could see himself in Dexer's boots. After all, he had been born in Las Vegas, Nev., and might pass for a cowboy himself. He had clear blue eyes and a chipped front tooth. He was tall (6 ft. 1 in.) and gangly; his face was browned and his legs a little bowed-although he had never been closer to a horse than the bettors' booths on a race track. Just the same, the western he was reading had its points of similarity with his own situation. Ted Schroeder would be his sawed-off sidekick, of course...
...books. He also held out alone on the Book-of-the-Month Club jury for Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. But such bravado was obviously rare. For Canby is not a daring or a penetrating critic. On the other hand, by his industry, fluency, and sincere impulse to "pass on sound values to the reading public," he made a place for himself in his period. He is as competent as any prophet to observe, at the end, "we .have lived through increasing intensity and its decline into fatigue, but the tranquillity, or at least the objectivity, is to come...