Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democrat in Baltimore, because "I always join the worst party to work from within to clean it up." In the 1895 election, when roughs were intimidating citizens waiting to vote by poking them with shoemakers' awls, small, stocky Dr. Kelly volunteered as a poll watcher, punched a plug-ugly in the nose...
Having long since proved that she can pull the plug on any three other musicomedy voices, Ethel Merman today puts herself across as brilliantly as she does a song. In Something for the Boys she is everywhere, doing everything. She torches and trollops, blares and beguiles, and late in the evening she and Actress Laurence, as a pair of wacky Indian women, bring down the house larruping through By the Mississinewa...
Ralph Jarron Gardiner, 42, a small, high-domed spark plug who used to work with Charlie Wilson in General Electric, will be Wilson's executive assistant as "Director General" for War Production Scheduling. His first job: to crack the bottlenecks in manufacture of parts. For this task Ralph Cordiner has had double-barreled experience: he was an expert on precision instruments at General Electric; as president of Schick, Inc. for the last three years, he has supervised conversion of a peacetime plant to their manufacture. With Cordiner and Gibbs, WPB had added two rough-&-tumble realists...
When jovial, ruddy-faced, six-foot Donald Perell Smith suddenly quit as Vultee Aircraft general manager in 1938, airport wiseacres said his luck had run out, figured he was through with aviation for good. Yet last week Don Smith was playing his biggest role ever: president and spark plug of California's Interstate Aircraft & Engineering Corp.-a smart, fast-growing aviation concern which has produced a plane so good the whole aviation industry is buzzing...
Knee-high, banjo-eyed, potato-nosed Barney Google and his wonder nag, Spark Plug, were to U.S. kids in the '20s what Superman is today. Barney Google ("and his goo-goo-googly eyes") was a 1923 song hit that sold more than a million copies. Three Barney Google musicomedies toured the U.S. for two years; a toy manufacturer sold $1,000,000 worth of Google and Spark Plug toys and dolls; many a Google catchphrase entered the slanguage ("Horsefeathers!" "Heebie-jeebies"; "Jeepers Creepers!" "Youse Is A Viper"; "Bus' Mah Britches!" "Time's a'wastin...