Word: sweatingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...undershirt on, perspiring all day long, and there will be a bunch of pretty gals to fan me if I ever get too hot, if such a thing is possible, and I will only go out to meals of fried chicken and waffles and just rest & rest and sweat & sweat.' To which dreams he got appreciative responses...
Despite the fact that the unseasoned Radcliffe oarsmen cannot row much more than fifteen minutes a day, Miss Clarke, toughened by her years of experience, and serving only as coxswain manages to work up a sweat on a few delicate feminine brows. In fact the girls, though fond of their storn mentor, definitely agree that she is "hardbeiled." As one young thing commented, "She won't even let me powder my nose...
...game starts in Washington. The top agencies divide the contractors. The winning board then pores over its contracts, warns companies their contracts are up for renegotiation. The companies' first move: bookkeepers tally up the latest figures, cost accountants wrangle with shop foremen over factory expenses, company bigwigs sweat over hard-to-pin-down items like depreciation, obsolescence, reserves for post-war conversion. Sometimes gimlet-eyed price-board agents hang around to try to make sure no penny is mislaid. This statistical roundup takes days, perhaps months, sometimes actually interferes with war production...
...climb the high hill near the airdrome just up the road and watch the bombers and fighters go forth . . . can see his countrymen building with blood, sweat and toil the firm resolution that their sons shall not die under bombs, but shall have peace, because they will know how to preserve peace. ... It is stirring to see this change in attitude. It makes the dust all right, the flies all right, the heat all right...
They took it lightly as they take their whole program-even its scripting, which Ace does himself. Unlike Fred Allen (who overmodestly says Goodman Ace is America's greatest wit), Goodman Ace burns no midnight oil, drips no sweat. He usually tosses off a script in an hour and a half. His cigars give him a convenient yardstick: a one-cigar script is apt to be terrific, a two-or three-cigar script fair, a four-cigar script a stinkaroo. Rehearsals are similarly carefree. A light once-over usually suffices. Anything more than that, Goodman Ace insists, kills...