Word: tab
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...money in his time. At 43 his chief idiosyncrasies are his hair, which he keeps scrupulously greased, his neckwear, which is always black, and his mastication, which is interminable. A wholesale dealer in female good looks, he has never married. "I'm independent and nobody can keep tab on what I do," says he. "I like it. And with any luck I'll beat this marriage...
...King's amusing antics and handsome presence are admirably supported by the statuesque beauty of Doris Dalton as Ethel, the copious blonde-topped charms of Ona Munson as Clara, and tab-collared cinema Englishness of Leo Carroll as Sir James...
...feet. For that period Michelin agreed to guarantee the debts of Citroën, but on a hard condition. To make sure that the slick motorman plays no tricks, Michelin forced M. Citroën to admit into his plants Michelin technicians and Michelin accountants who will keep tab on every move, every franc, every centime...
...Regulation. General Johnson looks upon NRA as a means for encouraging business to regulate itself. He has indicated that he looks forward eventually to turning NRA over to business, allowing the Government merely to keep tab on how business behaves. Mr. Richberg thinks of regulation not in terms of self-regulation but in terms of such regulation as is imposed by the Federal Trade Commission. Instead of turning codes more and more back to industry he may well favor putting representatives of the Government and of labor on code authorities. "A middle course between the anarchy of unplanned, undisciplined industrialism...
...that he was in Washington and Washington newshawks thought he was at home teaching at Cornell. Not a member of the original Brain Trust, he kept even his Washington office a secret and by habitually slipping into the White House through the garden he avoided letting any one keep tab on him while he kept tab on the way his theories were being put in practice...