Word: snag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unknowingly, Albrechtskirchinger has thrown a snag into normal University Hall operations because the machine room staff can't fit his name into course and grades lists...
...snag is that few ears besides Author Maugham's are likely to pick up the trumpet call of inspiration from yesterday's commonplaces ("The [Fijian] chief who received me was a nephew of the last king and . . . was dressed in a pair of short white pants"). Moreover, though he may be forgiven for crooning in the days of his youth, "My soul seemed a stringed instrument upon which the Gods were playing a melody of despair," it is wearying, 40 years later, to hear the same theme strummed on the same wet banjo: "The moan of the wind...
...opening side, "Snag It," puts Ory right out in front with a long, gutteral, uncompromising trombone solo. He lacks the force of an artist like George Brunis, but his low-register slides and his beautiful background work for Bud Scott's dry vocal make a neat piece. The other side of this one, "Savoy Blues," takes off on this old standard to display all the talents in the band-trombone, clarinet, guitar, bass, piano, and trumpet solos are packed between opening and closing choruses. Joe Darensbourg's clarinet stands out among the others here...
Retailers using the Meter-Matic plug the slogan: "No money down, as little as 25? a day!" Merchants who have attached meters to stoves, washers and television sets have run into a snag: customers tend to feed the meter only when the appliance is in use. But shrewd retailers have gotten around that by attaching the meter to the refrigerator, no matter which appliance is bought. Refrigerators are different: they have to keep going...
Other TV manufacturers were not standing still. To snag the high-price trade, Du Mont Laboratories, Inc. last week brought out a console model with a 19-in. tube (the biggest ever made), to sell for $725. Magnavox Co. bragged that its three new 16-in. sets had the largest picture area (148 sq. in. v. the usual 126) of any 16-in. set now on the market (prices: $399-5° to $595). Westinghouse Electric Corp., to calm dealers' fears of inventory losses, adopted the policy of guaranteeing its television dealers against loss on any price cuts that...