Word: swiping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Geek. Stan is one of the most wholehearted and resourceful heels yet to leave a print on the U.S. screen. He climbs a ladder made of ladies. Rung No. 1 is Zeena (Joan Blondell), the midway's mentalist. He plays cozy with her just long enough to swipe a pseudo-telepathic formula through which he can graduate to the big time. No. 2 is a luscious, loyal dimwit named Molly (Coleen Gray), whom he marries. No. 3 is Lilith (Helen Walker), a pseudo-psychiatrist who outsmarts him at his own racket...
...Kansas Governor Frank Carlson. Dewey admitted with a grin that he and his family "have seen more Republicans in the last five days than I ever thought I would see in my life." Answering a question about the Kansas City vote frauds (TIME, June 16), he took a swipe at Harry Truman: "It is a national story-one of the most important in the nation today." Complimenting Kansas City on coming to grips with the Pendergast machine, he said: "With the help of the Kansas City Star, you have been able to bring good government back to this city...
...setting classics to 4-4 jazz time and adding banal lyrics, Mossman has made more money rewriting masterpieces than the original composers did in writing them. His most successful swipe was Chopin's Polonaise in A Flat, which he turned into Till the End of Time. It was the best-selling jazz record of 1945.* Taking Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 apart, he extracted Ever and Forever from the first movement, and Full Moon and Empty Arms from the third. He rewrote the Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde and called it Time Stands Still...
...said archy he took a swipe at me with a rolled up newspaper. he knocked over a table and a nice lamp, so they threw him out of there...
...when you can find it. Some of the boys used to swipe quarts of milk and then go to the gas station to beg gasoline for a spike. Milk isn't left on doorsteps any more. It costs 20? a quart and the jerks at the gas stations ain't very friendly any more...