Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit last week was Negro Jack Johnson, onetime (1908-15) world's heavyweight champion. Cried he to the Universal Negro Improvement Association: "Franklin D. Roosevelt is champion now and wearing the belt. Abraham Lincoln was a good fighter in his prime, but he can't help us now. Always string along with the champion...
Meantime the "show must go on," "the mail must get through", etc. so practice continued as usual with a 30 minute scrimmage with the Jayvees and a demonstration of Army plays. Just to make the session unusually tough for the end squad, the second string, consisting of Jim Gaffney, Garrow Geer, Norm Cabners, and Dick Sullivan, took turns playing against each other, one pair serving on both the Jayvee and Varsity teams...
...wanted to. To a U. S.-hating Chilean who once remarked that he would not buy even a shoestring made in the U. S., Diplomat Fletcher replied: "I'm sorry the cable office isn't open today. I'd cable the President that the American shoe string industry is ruined." When Ambassador Dawes asserted that diplomacy "is easy on the head but hell on the feet," Mr. Fletcher quietly observed: "It depends on which you use." But wise cracks are incidentals to his trade. He plays poker and politics to win. In inter national politics...
They did not. As the months passed everyone in Athens heard that the gangster responsible for the attack was one Georgios Karathanasios. He continued to loaf around Athens cafés puffing a hubble-bubble and fingering a string of amber beads, boasting his immunity. Last week Statesman Venizelos' wounded chauffeur and six retired army officers, members of Statesman Venizelos' private bodyguard called the Republican Defense League, seized Gangster Karathanasios and delivered him to the highly embarrassed warden of the Athens jail...
...corporate name as any in the list of heavy industries is American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. At the end of last year this $150,000,000 heating & plumbing company was operating at 88% of normal (1926). A $20,000,000 annual profit in 1929 had turned to a string of deficits. Last week, however, in a voice which could certainly be heard as far as Washington. Board Chairman Clarence Mott Woolley roared to a reporter in his great black & gilt Manhattan headquarters...