Word: toe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is hardly an active member of the Fourth Estate who has missed stubbing his toe or bruising his knuckles upon ethical bugaboos of medicine and science. The reporter is most likely to be damned if he does report and doubly damned if he doesn't. This is a rather sad and unreasonable state of affairs. As a newspaper reporter, and more recently as a magazine reporter, I have time & time again felt the cool breath of informed disdain, however long and conscientiously I may have striven to report accurately and sympathetically. If this fate were peculiar...
Near Binghamton, N. Y., Zena Brown went swimming with red painted toenails, suddenly felt something bite off her right big toe. Her companion, Colonel Elmer E. Johnson, explained that a snapping turtle or big fish had been deceived by the painted toenail...
...curiously youngish man to be one of aviation's pioneers. A swank, dapper socialite who still flies often and badly, he is rich, independent, honest, can well afford to tread on many a famed toe, call many a spade by its rightful name. Some typical Loening evaluations...
...Under his thumb are 800 insurance companies with $22,000,000,000 of assets, which is 80% of all U. S. insurance assets and a sum equal to the national debt when President Roosevelt entered the White House. Nor is the job a mere matter of making the companies toe the strict line of New York State's insurance laws-as Superintendent George Slingerland Van Schaick (pronounced Skoik) found out. For also under his supervision were the big mortgage companies that cracked up after the 1933 Bank Moratorium with scandalous reverberations (TIME, Aug. 14, 1933). Having reorganized nearly...
obey says toe, submit says...