Word: stinger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...solid, affable Erwin Dain ("Spike") Canham of the Christian Science Monitor seldom raises his voice. When he does, he gets a hearing. Last week Editor Canham left his desk in Boston to speak to a meeting of newspaper admen in Chicago. At the end of his speech came a stinger...
Undismayed by Democratic criticism of his successful campaign-by-quotation, Tom Dewey answered with a stinger. He threw in for the voters a quote from Franklin Roosevelt's great & good friend Winston Churchill. In 1937, Winston Churchill had said...
Drinking was a trial. Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. reported from Miami that he paid $4 for a pony of Bisquit brandy, $2.50 for a Stinger cocktail. One liquor store asked $50 for a thimble-sized bottle of Cointreau. In the Miami Herald a diamond broker advertised a choice selection of bracelets and pendants at from $18,000 to $70,000, tax included...
...airmen, the stinger in the N.A.M. policy was not so much free air as free competition. On that latter point, the 19 U.S. airlines long ago split hotly. Against the 17 which have vociferously championed lots of international competition, Juan Trippe's Pan American Airways and William A. Patterson's United Air Lines have stoutly held out for the "chosen instrument" of one big Government-backed airline. In the N.A.M. the free-competition flyers found their strongest ally to date...
...whenever a "quip" is forthcoming? The secret is out. She is Miss Thelma Cutter of the Glass Hall secretarial staff, who, incidentally, is progressing admirably in the studies given the "Singing Statisticians." If ever a Women's Army Statistical Patrol (WASP) is organized, she'll surely become No. 1 Stinger...