Word: swag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taking it lying down. By last week the military situation in Europe had put Britain on an especially tough spot: nothing ventured, everything lost. The question was what could be ventured with a chance of gain. There was no use just jumping into the billabong to save the swag...
...Conrad's Victory (first made in 1919), Paramount had the vitals of a really scary thriller. The dreadful days on the little island of Samburan when creepy Mr. Jones and his two frightening assistants were looking for some swag can curl the hair of the most composed reader. Axel Heyst, mustachioed philosopher who lives in seclusion on the island with his Chinese servant, has heroic proportions. The howling storm which engulfs the last stages of the drama is great theatre. Alma, the helpless, buffeted pianist who escapes with Heyst to the peace of Samburan from oppression in an itinerant...
...continued brawling bitterly. Still ignored by both the battlers was FCC, oft cited as a possible arbitrator for the feud. Said a spokesman for the Commission : "We look at it more or less this way : It's just a quarrel between two business men over dividing up the swag...
...plant will not be converted to peacetime industry once the defense effort is over; it will be closed. So Government agencies shied from financing a housing project and Charlestowners had the choice of building a potential ghost town or letting nearby Louisville, Jeffersonville, New Albany make off with the swag...
Ever since their June rebellion, the Indians had practically ignored crusty old Manager Vitt. Behind closed doors, they made their own decisions, reputedly voted to have Vitt excluded, if they won the pennant, from a share of the World Series swag. While they took out their haughties on Vitt, the fans took it out on them. Everywhere they went, they were heckled. The "foreign press" (any writer outside Cleveland) dubbed them "Cry Babies." Rival teams sent them rubber panties, rattles, perambulators. When they went to bat, they were "boohooed" from their opponents' bench. Once they found a baby...