Word: scratch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Journal, in Jimmy Byrnes's home town, for $750,000. But this time, said Davis, there was no mystery about his business. In his plush suite in Manhattan's Waldorf Tower, he reassured anxious friends that he was still a salesman, had not suddenly started to scratch a journalistic itch. He had simply found an able young newspaperman to go partners with and do the editing (fellow Clevelander William Townes, 35, a Nieman fellow and former assistant city editor of the Cleveland Press...
Squirrely Speakeasy. In Hillsdale, Mich., Charles Wakeman explained why he keeps hickory nuts beside his bed. He feeds them to two squirrels that scratch at his window every midnight...
...exports? Prewar Russian exports, averaging only about 2.5% of Russia's total production, would not even begin to pay the service charges on a $7 billion loan. But those were Russia's exports during the period when she was building her industrial plant from scratch. Over a 30-year period, Russian exports could undoubtedly expand. Best guess in Washington for Russian exports to all countries in the first five postwar years: half a billion yearly. The U.S., which never took 5% of Russian exports, might in future get as much as 40%, or $200 million worth of coal...
...Shrill, scratch-penned Eleanor Jewett of Chicago's America-First Tribune put up a bald landscape of rolling hills and lowering sky, seen through a purplish haze of late-afternoon dusk: The Day Ends by Charles Kilgore...
...first issue succeeded surprisingly well, though cattlemen may scratch their heads over such lines as: "It was that they were there that held distances off"; and Londoners will probably be unmoved by the fact that the Owl Drug Store in Phoenix now stands where the Central Methodist Church used to. But both Londoner and cattleman should enjoy Neil E. Cook's recollections of embracing a girl in a steel-stayed corset: "like putting your arm around a bunch of lath...