Word: scratch
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Promptly at noon a postal official slit open the first bid and read it aloud. Others followed, to the scratch of an accountant's pen writing down their contents. Most of the old-line companies blossomed out with a minor change in name-part of the Farley program for corporate reorganization. Eastern Air Transport became Eastern Air Lines. Transcontinental & Western Air put three new periods into its abbreviated title. American Airways switched to American Air Lines. Only Western Air Express made a major change by becoming General Air Lines. Because its previous contracts were held under the names...
Many a plain U.S. citizen will linger over the snapshots of the last Republican and Democratic Conventions, will hoot with sudden delight at an action photograph of the Senate ("Ever seen a section of a termite nest under glass?"), will scratch his head over this group picture of the House of Representatives: ". . . Everywhere the closeset eyes full of lawyer's chicanery, the pursed, selfrighteous mouth drawn down at the corners, the flabby self satisfied jowl...
...tournament will consist of an eighteen hole medal round, to be played in two divisions. Class A will be limited to those contestants with ratings from scratch to fifteen, while players who hold ratings of sixteen or over will be placed in Class B. Winners of low gross and low net in each class will receive engraved medals...
...lived for many months. There they found a new touch of mystery-dozens & dozens of eggshells, carefully blown, with a neat hole in end of each." (TIME, April 2, p. 16.) Now there is a mystery that will make those French Johnnies sit back, take their hats off and scratch their heads. I'll bet those foreign crime-crackers never knew a small pinhole could make such a difference. Of course, if there had been another small neat hole at the other end, but - well, more power to them in their dilemma. Please, Mr. Editor...
...World-Telegram interviewer Sally Rand explained that the makeup she uses on her body makes her itch. Said she: "Doesn't it feel good to scratch?" Her description of her dance: "It is just my interpretation of a white bird flying in the moonlight at dusk.'' Her tribute to Henry Sittenberg, who makes her fans: "Henry has been in the business for 40 years and since I began my dance at the World's Fair last summer his business has picked up 100%. He estimates that I have 1,000 competitors. ... He makes the best fans...