Word: squibbing
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Critics charged Kingsford-Smith with trying to set up a "counter-attraction" to the main show. Replied he: "In this flight, more difficult than the England-to-Australia race, I will show that l am no squib...
...Delegation is fitted out with an elaborate sop to be offered at the right moment to Japan, a positively devilish sop in the opinion of Japanese sea dogs who hoped and prayed last week that it will not water down their human torpedo into a damp squib...
Sissies & He-Men. Manhattan copyreaders gleefully headlined a squib from the meeting: CITY EDITORS JUST SISSIES. Their pretext was a report...
...column; that you therein insert something similar to the following: "Do you also carefully read TIME'S advertising? For instance, where did 104,000 buyers spend $137,000,000 in 1933? (pp. 8-9)." 2) That you charge advertisers for the additional squib, allowing it to one or rotating it among all. Or, if used without charge, it will substantiate your claims of "TIME-the different magazine" in dealing with prospective advertisers. 3) That you reward the writer for his alertness in perceiving a potential TIME asset with a life subscription to TIME which he now receives...
After the appearance of this squib, the club promotion collapsed, and the promoters sued Winchell and the Mirror for $250,000. The promoters charged that Winchell's outburst was the result of malice because they had been obliged to remove his name from the directors' list in order to persuade Eddie Cantor to remain. That, Winchell vehemently denied. He said he had resigned because he believed the scheme dishonest; that he printed his attack for the same reason. At the trial in a Manhattan court last fortnight. Funnyman Cantor testified for Winchell. Stormed Winchell on the stand...