Word: catching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twelve correspondents were gathered around Ross's big walnut desk. "Close the doors," said Ross. "Nobody is leaving here until everybody has this statement." Then he passed out copies of a mimeographed handout. Merriman Smith of the United Press was first to read enough to catch the gist: "Evidence . . . atomic explosion . . . U.S.S.R." Whistling in surprise, he edged for the door...
...chased the students in his car, but was unable to catch them. A workman in the ares took down the registration number of the students...
...Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous," "Pink Pills for Pale People," "Do You Wear Pants?" Slogans temporarily gave way to jingles, alarming forerunners of the singing commercial. Illustrations (the manufacturer's face, Indians, prominent public figures, including President James A. Garfield) were used wildly and sometimes weirdly to catch the customer's eye. Then destiny struck in Chicago; a photographer named Beatrice Tonneson used pictures of live girls in ads for the first time...
...least one-third of all the advertisements bought by that staggering sum are using models. The proportion is nearer half in beer, cigarettes, cosmetics, the biggest users of models outside the fashion field. The figures add up to the simple conviction that there is nothing like a girl to catch the public's eye. Actually, with the buyers' market making the going tougher than before, the advertising business has begun to realize that a pretty girl can only lead the customer to the store counter; she cannot make him buy. Only the product itself can do that...
...story is a rickety yarn about the disappearance of the Blarney stone from Blarney Castle, and how a U.S. insurance investigator (Bing) helps the local police sergeant (Barry) to catch the thief. The crime, of course, gets far less footage than Crosby's crooning and a romance between Bing and the sergeant's sloe-eyed daughter (Ann Blyth...