Word: soaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worse was to come. Back in Manhattan, Colonel Wedgwood was told what Burt Wheeler had said. The peppery old Colonel exploded. Said he: "Tell Wheeler to go soak his head. Who is he, anyway? He's from Montana, I understand, but what nationality was he originally?" In calmer tones the Colonel added: "We have had years and years of these wretched appeasers like Wheeler in England, doing nothing and hoping for the best. . . . At the very kindest, I say such people are misled...
...newspaper man Kidder had little money; his business was sick from the adverse publicity, and fighting the FTC charges looked like a long and expensive process. But he was sure the FTC was wrong. When it asked him to sign a stipulation admitting that Koatsal did not soak into metal but was held on by "capillary attraction" (a scientific impossibility), he became surer than ever...
Taxes. The President asked for more taxes, leaving types and amounts to Congress. But he left no doubt that he is utterly opposed to sales taxes or processing taxes which do not disturb profits, but soak the consumer. Ability to pay he fixed as the guiding principle. From these clues taxperts could guess the shape of the bill that will destroy next spring's beauty for many a citizen: stiffer excess-profits taxes* (not a straight-out increase in regular corporate income-tax rates); another increase in surtax rates on incomes, probably on those in the so-called "savings...
...pond (strictly forbidden) to win a $50 bet, got kicked out of the Concordian Literary Society for reciting nasty verses, bootlegged pistols to his schoolmates. His crowning escapade was a clandestine prize fight he staged to raise money to buy a motorcycle. Having primed his second to soak his gloves with water so that he could hit his opponent harder, Chanler went six rounds against a bigger boy before 150 delighted schoolmates (who paid $1 each), was knocked out in the seventh when his gloves got so heavy he could scarcely lift them. The Rector summoned Chanler, ordered...