Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first breach in the solid wall of Labor rule, and the first open break among the Labor rulers over the degree of socialism the Government should apply. Prime Minister Clement Attlee, an apostle of the middle way, firmly accepted Ellis Smith's resignation...
...muggs, legmen and copy-deskers alike, soon made Variety the richest word-coining mint of the century, to the bafflement of laymen and the delight of language fans like H. L. Mencken and G. B. Shaw. Some of its headlines (such as its 1929 crash flash, WALL STREET LAYS AN EGG, and its STIX Nix Hix Fix, when bucolic cinemas' flopped in the hinterland) have attained a kind of backstage immortality. So have flopperoo, push over, palooka, scram, to click; and such trade phrases as "boff" (a variation of sock or punch) for smash hit, "preem," as a verb...
...burlesque, those hardest of taskmasters, can teach. But his success rests equally on personality. He is the little man who is a little mad; the fellow who, leering behind painted specs or grr-r-ring like a wolf, seems ready to leap at a woman or over a wall. Meanwhile, he remains in frantic, if aimless motion. There are more explosive comics (Durante, for one) than Bobby Clark; but none in whom so much seems just about to explode...
...Kaiser-Frazer Corp. has not yet produced a single car on a production line. But last week it stood to make a "paper profit" on additional stock, which it has not yet issued, either, that flabbergasted the most get-rich-quick Wall Streeters...
Almost two decades have passed since Wall Street was entertained by the neck & neck race between National City Bank's Charles Mitchell and Chase National Bank's Albert Wiggin for the title of the nation's biggest bank. Chase won out, via mergers with other banks, and held its lead till three months ago. Then a brash West Coast upstart, old A. P. Gian nini's Bank of America, pushed past...