Word: squeaking
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Keepsake. In Los Angeles, as an added service to a lubrication job, Mechanic J. H. Fisher removed a squeak from a car door, put it back next day at the owner's request because it had "sentimental memories...
...John L. than John L. has for him. White House aides had an explanation that accounted for the politics involved, if not the economics: the President, as the avowed pal of labor, was not going to get rough with labor or even with John L.-if he could possibly squeak by without doing...
Died. Matt Joseph ("Colonel") Winn. 88, impresario of the Kentucky Derby, who ballyhooed what was once a pip-squeak. Dixie picnic into one of the U.S. racing classics (worth $100,000 to three-year-olds and over $8,000,000 annually to Louisville merchants); after an operation; in Louisville. A straight-bourbon man, Horseman Winn credited his longevity to the fact that he never drank until noon, boasted that after taking over Churchill Downs in 1902, he never placed a bet (although he introduced the pari-mutuel betting machine) or owned a horse...
Recent practice injuries to veteran fullback Mike Scully and forwards Charlie Weiss and Ben Goldstein "just haven't come around." as Munro says. Bruce had been hoping this trio would be in better shape by now than it is. As a result, he plans to "squeak through" today with second-stringers in the lineup and at least save his starters for the rest of the season...
After seven exciting weeks of hunting big game in East Africa (bag thus far: five lions, 38 assorted wild critters), beefy Tenor Lauritz Melchior had a narrow squeak. The Metropolitan's veteran dragonslayer fired as a charging Cape buffalo came at him, fired again & again & again, finally dropped the one-ton beast less than ten feet away...