Word: strip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tumbled and the rain splashed down on Louisville in buckets. Maryland's Ed Christmas, who was training a mud-horse named Escadru, woke up and grinned. So did Texas' Ben Whitaker, whose My Request runs well on a wet track. It was still raining and the racing strip was a quagmire when Christmas bumped into Ben Whitaker at the stables and muttered slyly: "Every flag in Kentucky's flying half-mast." The heavy rain was over by breakfast...
...sense of outrage and irritation. But even so he did not stir audiences. At times fewer than two or three dozen people collected to hear him speak from courthouse steps; he seemed uncomfortable as he stepped forward to shake hands. When he spoke at Cadiz, a knot of roughneck strip miners booed, and called "Throw...
...Moines Register and Tribune led to a bigger & better rotogravure section and, eventually, to Look magazine. Another sold the Chicago Tribune's Bertie McCormick on the public demand for fat Sunday editions. A third, for William Randolph Hearst, led to the birth of the first comic-strip advertising and a job for George Gallup as head of the research division in the Manhattan advertising firm of Young & Rubicam...
Toscanini was baptized a Roman Catholic, but has seldom gone to church in recent years, except for the first communions of his two grandchildren. He refuses to conduct without a heavy, brass-framed strip of pictures of his children in his pocket. (The strip includes a picture of son Giorgio, who died at eight in South America...
...past, lively campaigning has been frowned on, because many Councilmen were afraid that elections would degenerate into orgies of pure ballyhoo, featuring everything from strip-teasers to stunts in the Applegate tradition. Vigorous electioneering, however, would appear to be the only method of awakening the latent undergraduate interest in Council activities. Campaigns for the Student Council need no more be extravagant than dull, or non-existent. Voters would probably be more inclined to favor a candidate who runs on his record and takes stands on issues than a man who swallows goldfish or chalks his name on College buildings...