Word: scratch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...merits the Sun will now really have to scratch. Its character still fuzzy, dutiful rather than inspired in editorials, it has done nothing since its scoop of Pearl Harbor to attract attention. Chicago newsmen particularly shake their heads over the Sun's news sense. Example: it passed up a U.P. story on Wake Island to run its own H. R. Knickerbocker's story a day late...
Result: the churches and Britain's Board of Education are now collaborating to draft an act making worship and religious instruction compulsory and providing a Government inspector of religious education (i.e., bringing religious teaching up to scratch...
Tenors the Met has had aplenty, but most are strictly platers. This year it had to scratch two: Jussi Bjoerling (because he could not get out of his native Sweden); Tito Schipa (because he returned to his native Italy at the bidding of Count Ciano). New tenors were Kurt Baum, a personable Czech (onetime heavyweight boxing champion of Prague) who showed good form in a bit in Der Rosenkavalier, and Jan Peerce, a veteran of Radio City Music Hall, who showed even more in his debut as the hero of Traviata...
...demonstrating for Charles Lindbergh, during the latter's visit to Germany in 1936, fell apart in the air. Udet parachuted to safety. In an Alpine circuit race he fouled his propeller in a 30,000-volt trolley wire. The plane lost its tail and Udet got a scratch...
...year-old mare named Royal Wally, a habitual also-ran, was entered in New Jersey's Essex Fox Hounds race meet last week. The Race Committee expected Member C. Suydam Cutting's weekend guests, the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, to attend the races. So rather than scratch Royal Wally, Owner Thomas Tully changed her name to Glenside. Fulfilling expectations, she finished last, but, alas, her former namesake didn't come...