Word: swag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Buddy Rosar was the envy of every catcher in the big leagues. Substituting as first-string backstop for the world-champion New York Yankees while Bill Dickey nursed a bad shoulder, Rosar was behind baseball's No. 1 plate-with $5,000 of World Series swag practically in his mitt. But Buddy, a law-abiding boy, had always wanted to be a cop in Buffalo, N.Y., his hometown. Last fortnight, on the eve of a doubleheader with the Chicago White Sox, Buddy Rosar shuffled off to Buffalo, where he took examinations for the police force (and where, also...
Cinetsar Will Hays appointed as his new assistant a once-famed crime writer who turned lawyer: Charles Francis Coe (Me . . . Gangster; Swag...
...Senator's tart observation: "Congress is like a burglar running with his swag, who gets caught at the edge of town, hands over the loot gracefully and says, 'Here it is, boys; I didn't think you could catch...
...radio's song pool, sent out royalty checks for the first quarter of 1941, threw Tin Pan Alley into an uproar. Stunned were BMItes, accustomed to a fat swag from 27-year-old rival ASCAP, to receive amounts as small as $2.45. While victims screamed that they were robbed, BMI last week made a hasty checkup, discovered that a honeymoon-struck accountant had figured into the publishers royalties everything but the big item, payments for radio network performances...
...German war machine was rolling before the ink was dry on the pact. But it was not likely that Messrs. Stalin and Molotov had hoped to discourage Germany from attacking Yugoslavia. They wanted merely to assure Yugoslavia that Russia would not move in to divide the swag, as it did in the case of Poland. Two weeks earlier they had given a similar assurance to Turkey. If by this means other nations could be encouraged to stand up to Germany, war would be kept away from Russia a while longer...