Word: tip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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White Man's Country. But it was four days before the news leaked out of Toombs County on a tip to the liberal Macon News, 90 miles away. Explained the editor of the Lyons Progress in Toombs County (who is also a string correspondent for Atlanta papers): "It's just another Negro killing-why, I'm not even going to put it in my paper." But "just another Negro killing" was soon headline news in the sensitive South...
...entrance of Frances Bavier in the last few minutes of "George and Margaret" is the damndest show-stopper I've seen. Tip-toeing on stage as the frightened and awkward new parlor main, Miss Bavier succeeded by pantomine in disrupting everything on both sides of the footlights for a few wonderful minutes of unbroken hilarity...
...Tip of the Tongue
Good Business. Little of this surprised automobile buyers very much. What was surprising was the way salesmen and dealers brazenly owned up to their grey marketeering. George E. Adlung, salesman for New York Avenue Motor Co., admitted receiving more than $1,200 in tips on only four sales. William Manuel, a salesman for Kearney, received at least $1,520 in tips this year. "Whenever I sold a car," he testified, "I expected something as a tip . . . They do it all over the country." Raymond J. Kearney, co-owner of the agency with brother Robert, admitted that his allowances on trade...
Actually, Goldsmith testified, the market tip letter that earned him as much as $39,000 a year was based on stock market charts. He had said that the tips were based on Maggie & Jiggs only because "I was worried and confused and in a hurry to get out." And even if Maggie & Jiggs did suggest a tip, he insisted that he always checked it against his charts. That was why he had always been right on long-range predictions, though sometimes wrong on short-range ones. Said he: "Stocks always do what they ought to do, but they never...