Word: squibs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apprehension. Coming back at the beginning of the fifth act, he reached the wings just in time to hear a hiss from the audience. He was dropping with alarms at this when the hard-boiled manager came up and said, "Psha, Doctor! don't be afraid of a squib, when we have been sitting these two hours on a barrel of gunpowder...
While many a young career diplomat bites his nails and pines for a squib about himself which may catch the eye of President Roosevelt or Secretary Hull, grandmotherly Madam Minister Ruth Bryan Owen continues to beat all State Department records for sustained publicity in her minor post in Denmark. Peering inquisitively into Mrs. Roosevelt's shrimp cocktail, Mrs. Owen lately achieved a pose of definite news-picture appeal (see cut). Last week "Big Ruth," as her three grandchildren call her, returned to her post, and a Danish despatch revealed how thoroughly Madam Minister has the local correspondents in hand...
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...