Word: sawdusted
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...other reasons, some heads already rolled in the sawdust. Top men on Radio Row had decided that the public was fed up with straight gag shows, wanted its humor coated with a story. So off the air went Danny Kaye ("too arty"), and off went Cass Daley (whose Hooper rating had skidded). Abbott & Costello hoped to save themselves with a new routine...
...benefit of newsmen, Jimmy publicly hit the sawdust trail. Said he: "I've never been on the far left. I have been just slightly left of center." But he was far enough to have given ill-concealed primary support to Rogers' Communist-supported opponent: Ellis Patterson...
...Ship, an ancient Tudor pub with sawdust on the floor, overlooking the finish line. Publican Gus Foster, an ex-lion tamer, thought some of the old boat-race flavor was missing. He remembered the time he bet his shirt against a lady's blouse-and won. "She took off her blouse right in the public bar," he said. "She was a sport, she was." For 30 years he had rented out window space on The Day, and usually quadrupled his sale of beer and short-order meals...
...most remarkable. "War . . . is forever renounced as a means of dealing with other nations. The maintenance of land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be authorized." Prime Minister Shidehara and the Tokyo press called on other nations to follow Japan down the sawdust trail. Said Asahi importantly: "World peace cannot be maintained by the unilateral act of Japan alone...
...Sawdust Trail. In Medford, Ore., Army Lieut. Hugh Collins' parrot Snafu, sent to jail for habitual bad language, turned over a new leaf, croaked snatches of old-time Gospel hymns...