Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pearson has been sued eight times for a total of $23,500,000. But cagey Drew Pearson, a match for most libel lawyers, brags that he has not yet paid a judgment (though his attorneys' fees are huge). He will work for hours to make an item libel-proof, or to tone down the libel until it is not worth suing over. Editors seldom ask Pearson for his proof. They know he will fight the case for them if they are sued. It is not altruism on his part. He cannot afford to lose many suits and stay...
Between 1920 and 1926, Childs never netted less than $1,500,000 a year. The Magazine of Wall Street called it one of the five most depression-proof stocks in the U.S. Then William Childs (Sam had died in 1925) turned faddist, and tried to turn Childs's customers into vegetarians. No more sausages with griddle cakes; no more rhubarb pie (someone had told him rhubarb was poisonous). Customers stayed away in droves, and the depression left Childs stranded with high-priced real estate and leases signed at boom-time rentals...
...Proof of how well the inside plays were working is provided by the fact that the Crimson scored only three times on set shots, two by Crosby and one by Smith. But Brown, which was supposed to challenge Holy Cross for the New England title this winter, never went ahead after losing an early 4-2 lead...
Theodore Roosevelt, who grew up to brandish a big stick, got an early start as a collegiate boxer. An exhibit of photographs, letters and other TRivia that opened last week in Manhattan furnished some fierce pictorial proof: a bewhiskered Teddy in his teens in fighting rig (with scowl to match) as a Harvard undergraduate...
...Dodgers should be required reading in civics and political science classes throughout the U.S. Few books provide such detailed proof of the breakdown of political morality in the face of bribery and corruption. Irey, who wasn't greatly surprised by the rottenness he uncovered, found "something impressive about Mr. Truman's devotion to his larcenous constituent," Missouri's Tom Pendergast. Says Irey flatly: "Mr. Truman, then Senator Truman, used every bit of pressure that his office legally permitted to keep Pendergast out of jail...