Word: sore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boxer does on another in the ring-getting in licks where they hurt the most." Thus a British air authority on the R.A.F. plan in the Battle of Germany. The battle was joined on June 15. For five weeks since then the R.A.F. has pummeled four Nazi sore spots (for the geographical distribution of these raids...
Last week the Nazis barred CBS from making any broadcasts from Germany. The Nazis were sore about comments made by wry Elmer Davis in Manhattan as follow-up to a CBS radio interview in Berlin with Funnyman Pelham Grenville Wodehouse week before. Said Commentator Davis of Author Wodehouse, released from an internment camp and put at Berlin's swank Hotel Adlon so he could broadcast for the Nazis...
...Chicago. His pianist brother Frank sticks to the seaboard; his greater talent and his tameness betray him into the venal successes of the "swing" rage. Between the two of them they cover most of the salient features of jazz and Jazz-living among white musicians. There is some sore stuff on that corrupt necessity, the musician's union, and an interesting passage about marijuana. Send Me Down, in its own scale, is a likable enough performance. But it is scarcely adequate to its subject...
Last week Judge Patterson offered a modified bill. Its terms limit the requisitioning power to "any military or naval equipment or munitions, or component parts thereof, or machinery, tools, or materials necessary to manufacture of such equipment or munitions." Congress was still sore about the whole subject, but it was willing to listen...
...Rayburn suggested making such omissions permanent and universal. >> Eleanor Roosevelt offered to refund her half of a $1,000 fee (shared by her agent) for speaking at a Burlington, Vt. hospital benefit because the fee wiped out the benefit, but the sponsors declined. >> Franklin D. Roosevelt got a sore throat, cancelled plans to go to the Harvard Commencement this week...