Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chinese Into "Japanese." Both sides have tried masquerading in uniforms of the other side to pull off surprise attacks, but the Chinese claim it is too easy to spot a Japanese in Chinese uniform because the Japanese have a characteristic swaggering shuffle acquired in childhood as a result of wearing wooden sandals. Every guerrilla headquarters has at least 100 Japanese uniforms, complete with helmets and leather boots...
Most radio shows laboriously present audience surveys and other statistical mumbo-jumbo to prove to sponsors that they can pull in listeners. None of this was necessary, however, when Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre of the Air was sold to Campbell Soup last week. Week before Mr. Welles had proved that his program had grip when his production of The War of the Worlds and the U. S. radio audience's gullibility had created a national panic. Mercury Theatre will replace Campbell Soup's Hollywood Hotel on CBS December...
...Gates, nicknamed "Heavenly." Once, in the college library, Heavenly Gates with powerful fists ripped up a copy of Freethinker Tom Paine's Common Sense which someone handed him. Once he turned in tortured fury on a football player who said: "Say, Heavenly, if you've got any pull with God, tell him to stop this rain...
...fact, recipients were so pleased with them that they would not return them. Weaver solved this by sending them out in duplicate, letting the customer keep one, fill in the other. Other discoveries: a footnote gets more attention than a headline; sometimes a messy carbon of a letter will pull more replies than the original...
When Montgomery Ward & Co. lost $8,712,023 in 1931, the directors started searching for someone who could pull the big mail-order house out of the red. For $100,000 annual salary and an option on 100,000 shares of stock at $11 (now selling at $50), they got Sewell Lee Avery. Chicago's No. 1 businessman and director of a dozen top-flight U. S. corporations, Mr. Avery won fame by nursing U. S. Gypsum Co. through Depression 1 with profits and dividends every year. Still more remarkable was his revival of Ward's. It netted...