Word: take
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...places by a huge, mad dog and in a desperate attempt to cheat death, his mother had fled from their home town in Alsace to Paris. Early in the afternoon Mme Meister met a young physician in a hospital. "You mean Pasteur," he said. "I'll take you there...
...Boston American. This plugged a drainage of nearly $5,000,000 a year. Executives White and Hearst Jr. began liquidating the Hearst art treasures. Executive Connolly got rid of seven radio stations for $1,215,000. Executive Huberth told Hearst real-estate bondholders they could reduce interest charges or take the buildings. The bondholders took the Ritz Tower, where Mr. Hearst lives when he is in Manhattan...
...years Hearst made a thousand city room legends, hired & fired many thousands of men. He spent fortunes for trained seals, but he never gave a leg man a decent wage if he could help it. Most people hated him and he had to take his name off Metrotone News, but the few who are still close to Hearst love him with Irish sentimentality. Paul Y. Anderson called him "a horse-faced man with a squeaky...
...batter of mainly carbolic acid and turpentine for some cakes to discourage an unwanted guest. The batter was to be called Askitoff. In mixing it they professed to spill some on the carpet, whereupon the dirt magically disappeared. This was, Askey's cue to crack "Askitoff will take it off." Thereafter Askey began repeating the crack several times in each broadcast...
...contract March 15. Fortnight ago, on Page i of The Exchange & Mart, there appeared a two-inch advertisement that angered Big-hearted Arthur and the BBC no end. "Britain's Best Cleaner," it read, with the initials in boldface so that nobody could miss the point, "Askitoff will take it off." Investigation revealed that an enterprising new outfit called Askitoff Cleaner Co. had patented the name, and apparently nothing could be done about...