Word: putted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pictures go. "No painting is ever finished" is one of his gloomy sayings, and it is true that his studio and his chateau are jammed full of canvases which he will not sell. Even so, Dealers Rosenberg, et al., have occasionally been so hard put to it to keep from being flooded with Picassos that a wit once suggested, as a solution, a tie-up with the Citroen (Ford of France) Motor Company: "A Picasso with every Citroen...
Miss Laidlaw's catch not only put to shame the heavy-tackle anglers who think they have accomplished something when they land a tarpon with 24-thread line, but also went on record as the outstanding achievement of this year's 99-day Miami Fishing Tournament. Deep-sea angling experts could not remember a more remarkable feat in Atlantic waters...
Tiger Fox, a cagey Negro fighter, was 3-to-1 favorite. But Jimmy Grippo was not dismayed. In the last two years his hypnotic stare had never let him down. Before each fight he put burly, clumsy young Bettina through a ritual that was publicized as a hypnotic treatment; after each fight his protege emerged undefeated...
Before last week's bout. Manager Grippo performed his dressing-room hocus-pocus as usual. Then, for good measure, he went to Tiger Fox, put the Indian sign on him behind his back. Just before the opening gong, Hypnotist Grippo ambled over to the Negro's corner, tried to catch his eye, while 2,000 squealing Beaconites went wild in the gallery...
...businessmen-whose rising sales that year were more than offset by aggregate weakening of working capital-the steady downtrend in TIME'S Index from February to September 1929 gave ample warning that houses should be put in order, inventories cut and debts reduced. (And if enough businessmen had taken those steps, TIME'S Index-and all other indexes-would doubtless have showed a far less depressing downtrend in the sorry years from...