Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After indignantly denying that she had fired Town Marshal James Rigas for confiscating tavern punchboards, 270-lb. Mayor Maggie Waltho of Soap Lake, Washington took the job herself, silenced carping critics with a crisp, "In a fourth-class town, what the mayor says goes...
...Provocation: the kidnapping of a 400-lb. bronze terrapin from the University of Maryland campus. The invaders had to battle through barbed-wire entanglements and streams from fire hoses, were foiled when they got into the main dormitory-the defenders had covered the floors with a slippery mixture of soap chips and water...
...years women on foot had shuttled their daily loads of flour, oil, sugar and soap across the bridge. But Brazil and Argentina are South America's most powerful rivals, and many reasons of state had been found to delay the formal inaugural. Finally, it could be put off no longer. Said a bored Brazilian as Dutra winged south for the meeting: "I suppose somebody...
...Gothic is Gothic with a difference." The difference is sometimes too marked to miss. Like most attempts to recreate in one century what came naturally in another, Angel's work has more finish than feeling. It suffers from a kind of suavity which sometimes looks a little like soap carving; it lacks the hard energy of Gothic stone...
...grind." After he began sports announcing, he spent eight years playing second fiddle to Sportcaster Bill Stern, doing the crowd description fill-ins at big games and announcing the second-string events. In 1940 he had a chance to telecast the New York World's Fair Soap Box Derby. In & out of television ever since, he deserted radio for good last November and bet on video as a full-time career...