Word: vinegars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vinegar in the Blood. In a series of surreptitious midnight conferences at Brislin's house, Bradshaw and girl friend sang out the story of the dynamiting and allowed the newsman to copy tape-recorded conversations by the four other goons who had done the job. With affidavits from Bradshaw and girl friend in hand, Brislin turned his story in to the Tribune city desk and handed over his evidence to the district attorney. Within three days all four dynamiters had con fessed. Brislin's continuing exclusive sto ries in the Tribune and a sustained editorial barrage...
Convinced that the committee and the press have "still only scratched the sur face" in Scranton, Newsman Brislin (whose city editor says he has "vinegar in his blood") last week was digging deeper into the story that he has followed for 25 months. Over at the Times, Tom Murphy was banging away with new editorials on an issue that he spotted and tackled more than three years...
DRANO (caustic soda): drink lots of water or milk, counteract the alkali with a weak acid such as diluted vinegar, lemon or orange juice...
Bolstering the staff, Luis Arroyo with his tricky greaseball could straighten out to be one of the toughest hurlers in the Senior circuit. And, too, in the St. Louis training camp last month at St. Petersburg, the watchword was "watch Vinegar Bend Mizell." The phrase referred to southpaw Wilmer Mizell...
...soon earned him a place at the top of their list of decadent painters. The Reluctant Yes. Grosz was saved from a concentration camp by an invitation to teach in Manhattan's Arts Students' League. Though he threw himself into his work, he soon disappointed his champion, vinegar-tongued U.S. painter John sloan, by going soft, burying his Germanic vitriol and trying to establish new roots as an illustrator. But as Grosz himself noted: "It is not easy to keep repeating yes, everything's fine." With The Pit, which Grosz identifies simply as "the story...