Word: spades
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hoarse Frederick Riebel Jr. juggled his 275 pounds above a spade in bucolic Bucks County, Pa. last week while grinning workers watched. Professionally he scooped up a spadeful, started a housing project for Brewster Aeronautical Corp. workers. The Brewster workers thought their president did well. Brewster stockholders are also pleased with Riebel's performance. At the annual meeting, a stockholder moved a vote of confidence in present Brewster management. The chorus of "ayes" was the first time in many a bomber's moon there has been enough confidence in Brewster to shout...
Burly, two-fisted, plain-spoken Carroll Duard Alcott, 42, started it. Before he joined Cincinnati's WLW at Pearl Harbor time, Alcott was renowned throughout the Far East for his spade-calling broadcasts from Shanghai. Almost every time he opened his mouth Tokyo clenched its little fists...
...with Los Angeles' dancing public. Professional Cuban dancers, featured on Cugat's programs, frightened the average nightclubber with the intricacy and speed of their steps. Shrewd Xavier Cugat gradually slowed up the professionals, lured the amateurs to try a step or two. After five years of spade work, he had made Los Angeles the most rumbatic of U.S. cities, and Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria beckoned with a fat contract...
Without so much as a diplomatic hesitation, the U.S. told Vichyfrance last week that a spade is a spade. When flabby, sinister Pierre Laval protested to the U.S. Chargé d'Affairs, S. Pinkney Tuck, that the U.S. bombings of Rouen and Havre were "odious aggression," Mr. Tuck did not even pretend to wait for an answer from Washington. Then & there, he told Laval that the U.S. did not aim to kill Frenchmen but all factories in Occupied France operated by or for Germany "would be bombed at every opportunity in the future...
Professor Colman, spade-bearded, bachelor dean of a law school, clings to a somewhat cloistered view of the law. A renowned theorist, he is unaware of the common or police-court distortions of legal principles. Gary Grant, Jean Arthur and others resolve-not entirely unselfishly-to open his eyes. Grant is a fugitive from an arson charge. He has been framed by his boss, who burned down his factory to collect the insurance. Miss Arthur, a rather befuddled schoolmarm, just wants to see justice done...