Word: rider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thin thread of continuity that runs through Hold On to Your Hats is spun of the same stuff that has gone into most theatrical satires on radio. A timid aerial star known as the Lone Rider is enticed to a Western dude ranch, confronted with real bandits who scare the chaps off him until just before the finale, when he gets the drop on them all. Jaunty at 54, still tops at putting over a song or a story, Jolson gallops triumphantly through the part of the Lone Rider, accompanied by a whole rodeo of able talent...
...putting sand and cinders in locomotive grease chambers to create hotboxes, vinegar or sugar in gasoline tanks to stall cars. One particular trick stressed in the school was stretching a thin wire across highways at a height of 4 ft. 3 in. to decapitate enemy motorcyclists. Lest a rider detect the wire, volunteers were told to place a dummy at the side of the road to distract his attention at the crucial instant...
...British slang expression-which originated from a rider's sensation of breath less leveling off when his horse breaks from trot or canter into full gallop-is "flat out." Last week at last, Canada was flat out in her war effort...
...this talk carries one rider: all bets are off if the U. S. remains politically unfriendly toward Germany, tries an arms race with her. Such a race would, of course, divert the resources of both continents from the job of bringing prosperity to Hitler's brave new world...
...Follette rider was not to be classed with the many emotional proposals of recent years (often sponsored by the American Legion) that have sought to tax all war profits up to 95%. Mild, as war-profits taxes go, La Follette 's was nevertheless inequitable. Reason: corporations that have recently earned a high rate of return would be penalized in comparison with those that have been running at or near a deficit. For the latter (railroads, etc.) could ride the boom a long time (with a leverage quotient seductive to investors) before reaching the onerous tax brackets. The more efficient...