Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...place to print his morning Sun. Since it began, six years ago, the Sun has been a paying guest of the Chicago Daily News. At first, everything was fine. Marshall Field's Sun was out to wear down Bertie McCormick's monolithic Tribune. Always happy to stick an irritating finger in McCormick's glacial eye, the late Colonel Frank Knox quartered the Sun in his spacious Daily News plant, let it use his presses at night and was nice about the rent. Hardheaded John S. Knight later took over the Daily News, but not its feuds...
...heart-shaped scarlet cloth draped over a wooden stick which has a handle at one end and a sharp steel point at the other...
...walk into a cushy job by appearing to walk out on it; how to hook a gentlewoman (Miss Kerr) for a soap testimonial; how to turn out a commercial ("Love That Soap") that turns even his own stomach; how to finesse a sharp deal and how to make it stick by the application of blackmail. Above all, he knows how to please his agency's most fearsome client, Mr. Evan Llewellyn Evans (Sidney Greenstreet). Vic seems predestined for radio's ulcer brackets. But Miss Kerr's gentility seduces him into true love; and Mr. Greenstreet...
...TIME'S Sport Editor, who knows how it feels to be hit over the head with a lacrosse stick, was in the crease...
...Brazil is expected to stick by its choice. One reason: the delegates could be housed in one place, away from the distractions of Rio. Another: the hotel, its casino dark, has been losing $10,000 a month ever since the Government ended licensed gambling last year (TIME, May 13, 1946). Holding the conference there would be one way of partially repaying suave Joaquim Rolla, Brazil's former gambling king, and owner of Quitandinha...