Word: spick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early one morning this week, New York's harbor was a well-planned bedlam of whistles, sirens and bells. Fireboats spouted their best special-occasion cascades. Amid this welcoming todo, the Cunarder Queen Elizabeth, spick & span in a new coat of red, white and black paint, nosed past the Statue of Liberty, headed up the Hudson. At 7:33 a.m., she tied up at Pier 90, ending her maiden commercial voyage across the North Atlantic. Henceforth the 1,031-ft., 83,673-ton Queen Elizabeth will sail weekly between New York and Southampton (the Queen Mary is still being...
Familiar Ring. In Pittsburgh, Pauline Wiseman complained that someone had sneaked into her spick-&-span rooming house, had not only taken a bath but left a ring around...
...makeshift sheets of galvanized iron. Bright decorations hid fire-blackened walls. The furniture was rickety, the silverware a jumble of designs-anything that could be borrowed. But Manila again had its galas. The "Grand Hotel" was now a symbol of hopeful days ahead: the Government hoped to have it spick & span, newly furnished by July 4, the day set for Philippine independence...
...strike were 209 union printers, who walked out of their cluttered composing rooms at the Star and Hearst's morning Post-Intelligencer, their spick-&-span one at the Times, demanding a $2.95 a day raise. In the old days publishers had met such crises by hustling scab compositors into town, and paying reporters extra to double in linotyping. This time, they shut down...
...Spick & Span. The U.S. Army has almost stopped buying soap. It has more than enough for its needs, plans to sell the surplus. Among items up for disposal: 19,851,000 cakes of toilet soap; 1,345,000 Ibs. of soap chips; 1,588,000 tubes of shaving cream...