Word: turning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...skipper. I look at all the ads first, turn to Sport, and then I'm off straight through the magazine...
...seen some plans for electronic expenditures so vast that they would leave no money for anything else. He promised that his government would respect U.S. leases on three Newfoundland bases when that island joins Canada on March 31. PM St. Laurent hoped that the U.S. would in turn respect Canada's rights, treating her "on a plane of equality...
Publisher Bennett Cerf, columnist and joke-anthologist, bemoaned the creative life: "It's a good thing for a publisher to turn author once in a while. He learns how easy it is to feel hurt. On publication day he looks at the papers and finds his book mentioned only among Books Published Today . . . Even his friends don't know what day this is. Life outside is actually going on as usual. It is very hard to take...
Moscow's Pravda had hounded Soviet writers, painters, composers and architects in turn. Last week the paper got around to art critics. The critics, Pravda barked, had "nothing in their souls but bad breath and inflated conceit ... it is imperative to put an end, once and for all, to liberal toleration of all these esthetic cosmopolitans who lack a healthy love of country...
...squeeze for a high one. But for three years after he got out of the Waif's Home (his mother got "a big white man" to spring him), he was too busy driving a coal wagon to blow a note. Then one night Bunk Johnson didn't turn up, and Louis sat in for him (for $1.25 a night) at Matranga's joint on Perdido Street; even the great Joe ("there's mah man") Oliver came around to listen...