Word: whiskered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio's big ten were the deftly written serial The Aldrich Family (sixth), the schmalz of Band Leader Kay Kyser (ninth), the soap-opera One Man's Family (tenth). Beating the graven image Charlie McCarthy by a whisker, Jack Benny led the pack for 1940. Others in Crossley's peerage: Fibber McGee & Molly, the Lux Radio Theatre, Bob Hope, Kate Smith, Major Bowes...
...Alumni came within a whisker of upsetting Hal Ulen's Varsity mermen last year and only succumber by a 34 to 32 score, and this season the grads are again going to provide serious opposition...
...Dooley Wilson irresistibly suggests, is somewhere in between. Lucifer is further abetted by a sort of diabolical advertising agency where hellish "idea men" plan new campaigns of temptation. Their idea for Dooley Wilson is a winning ticket in the Irish Sweepstakes. In the end he escapes perdition-by a whisker...
...through a balky House last July, found out that there are more ways than one of killing a cat. Behind the well-oiled State machine of District Judge David Chavez Jr. (who sent Dempsey to Congress), Brother Dennis Chavez won the Democratic nomination for U. S. Senator by a whisker. Roared Dempsey : "[There will be] 30 to 40 FBI agents in Santa Fe by nightfall. . . . The people have been intimidated...