Word: straight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Urrows, while at Harvard, served as secretary and production manager of the Club, and produced here "Dog Beneath the Skin" and "Straight Scotch." Since graduation he has been engaged in publicity writing for various firms, including Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and he has spent a good deal of time with the "Barnstormers," a New Hampshire stock company...
...factory. Reward for its return: two packs of cigarets. Prisoner Such-and-such will swap a pair of $12 shoes, which don't fit him, for 16 packs of cigarets. Whitsitt used to broadcast complaints and comments on prison regimen, too, but nowadays he has to stick to straight news, paroles and arrivals, personal items...
Even doctors, some of whom have been "terrible sufferers," find it hard to speak of gout with a straight face. Some, like their patients, pride themselves on their virile infirmity. Osier quotes approvingly Germany's Willibald Pirkheimer (translated into English in 1617) : "I take no pleasure," he wrote, "in those hard, rough, rusticke, agresticke kind of people who are never at rest, but ... are moyling and toyling, do seldom or never give themselves to pleasure, do endure hunger, which are content with a slender diet...
Sober, methodical and coolheaded, Violist Primrose is no sissy. His evenings are spent, not at musical tea parties, but at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Once a good boxer himself, still an avid connoisseur of right hooks and straight lefts, he no longer dares to get into the ring for fear of hurting his hands. Today, Primrose is generally considered the world's finest viola player. No longer does he have to play one-night stands, traipsing through snowdrifts to theatres and hotels in out-of-the-way Canadian and Midwestern towns. He reaches a bigger audience...
...Judge Walter C. Lindley took his seat on the bench and the jury of farmers and merchants stumbled into the box. The 17 sat ramrod-straight as the farmer-foreman handed up the verdict. The clerk began to read: General Motors Corporation, guilty; General Motors Sales Corporation, guilty; General Motors Acceptance Corporation, guilty; General Motors Acceptance Corporation of Indiana, guilty. He began the list of individual defendants: Alfred P. Sloan, William S. Knudsen, M. E. Coyle. . . . Over the faces of the defendants fell a dark shadow. The maximum penalty for the conspiracy as charged was a fine...