Word: snugging
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...error to think that Ely Culbertson and Milton C. Work were responsible for making bridge a national frenzy. If any one man was responsible, it was Clifford E, Albert, who was last week rewarded with promotion to the presidency of Cincinnati's snug little U. S. Playing Card Co., succeeding Arthur R. Morgan, who retired to the chairmanship of the executive committee. Cardman Albert devised the bridge broadcast plan, whereby players in the home follow the game in the studio play by play. At one time U. S. Playing Card was promoting bridge in this fashion through 155 stations...
...moved the ball to Minnesota's one year line and a Northwestern touchdown, it was well known that Minnesota had been playing football since 1932 without a single defeat. Coach Bernie Bierman wore Knute Rockne's mantle; to Minneapolis citizens from bellboy up, the garment even seemed a bit snug...
After lunch in Memorial Church with the members of his staff, President Roosevelt was whisked off by car to snug old Sanders Theatre for a final alumni gathering. There he was greeted by Harvard's President-of-the-Day. Abbott Lawrence Lowell who once lectured him in Government 1, and by that archfoe of New Deal tax policy, Yale's President James Rowland Angell (TIME, June 15). To the crowds outside in the rain, fighting with police for admission, microphones carried a rare piece of Presidential...
...October 1935, Actress Astor admitted on the stand, she had telephoned Mr. Kaufman, whom she had not met, from a Manhattan saloon, asked him if he would care to make her acquaintance. He would and did, the upshot being that playwright and actress spent ten days together in a "snug and delightfully cozy" Manhattan apartment. Miss Astor wrote in her diary that she asked Mr. Kaufman: "How is it that you don't tell me you love me?" The worldly, 47-year-old dramatist, according to the Astor diary, replied, "Well, I'll tell...
...influential Conservative M. P., Sir Henry Cautky, and finally to that British automobile tycoon who got his start making sheep-shearing machines for Australians and grew rich building the "Baby" Austin car. Every step of the way Herbert Austin has had to buy and pry his honors from the snug ruling class, his latest expense having been $1,250,000 presented to Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, for "physics research." That charity reputedly clinched the barony, upped the Baby Austin's maker into the House of Lords...