Word: toeholds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Like most famed sayings, Wellington's gives a slight toehold to apocryphists. But TIME will continue to credit Wellington with the saying unless 1) somebody can prove that he did not say it, or 2) that the saying is false to the spirit it symbolized...
...Thome Smith, by John Dos Passes, Erskine Caldwell, Theodore Dreiser, John Steinbeck, Westbrook Pegler; The Snows of Kilimanjaro, one of the most ambitious and psychologically the most painful of Hemingway's stories; a wide-open Ring Lardner razz of wrestling ("Come on, Alexis; take me. Anything but a toehold."); Helen Brown Norden's famous Latins Are Lousy Lovers-which is less interesting in itself than in its unintended suggestion that American women are lousy...