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...Does she ever have to pinch herself to remember she is First Lady? A. No comment...
...players were willing to try anything in a pinch. In the Harvard-Pennsylvania game of 1887, the men from Philadelphia could do nothing against a sturdy Crimson line. It was a stormy day with the rain coming down in torrents, and as the CRIMSON said, "rendering the ground and ball very slippery and making fine plays impossible...
...radio stations were more vulnerable targets than juke boxes. Broadcasters .would probably soon feel the pinch of Petrillo's ban on transcribed programs (of the 900-plus stations in the U.S., only about one-third employ musicians; many a small station owes its livelihood to the transcribed singing commercial). Petrillo had another threat up his sleeve; he might bar his musicians from playing on programs carried across the country by radio networks...
...pinch was on. The first to sound the alarm last week was Socony-Vacuum Oil Co.'s A. L. Nickerson, who warned that fuel oil might be so short this winter that it would have to be rationed in the East. Said Nickerson: "The consuming public [should realize] that a new oil-burner installation does not carry with it an assured supply of fuel." Monroe Jackson Rathbone, president of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), "Big Jersey," went even further. He suggested that all U.S. refineries allocate the supply of oil to retailers...
Until Oklahoma!, Hammerstein adapted his lyrics to his partner's melodies (notable exception: The Last Time I Saw Paris, which Oscar first wrote as a poem, Jerome Kern later put to music). This system of creation puts the pinch on the lyricist; and it is in the pinches that Oscar has earned the awe of his fellow craftsmen, who refer to him as "The Master." Oscar now writes his words first and lets Rodgers weave a song...