Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Nazis crawling about like beetles all over South America is to my mind a fair example of the wishful thinking or poor reporting in which the U. S. press has been indulging itself for a long time, even though the events of the past few months have made it clear that we can no longer afford such nonsense. The Germans are strong in South America in certain sections, not so much be cause they crawl about like beetles performing their loathsome machinations at the dictates of the Nazi High Command, but because in the last 20 years numbers of them...
...signed" or "waiting for a streetcar." Meanwhile, as signatures fled from their lists, the Communists found themselves not only kicked out of the polls but dragged into the courts with a trial for fraud. The Legion-Hearst-Scripps-Howard entente's victory was complete--but it's still not clear what they were fighting...
...thing the Duquesne Club made clear at the outset: it never gave anything away. Even when rival bridge teams came to the club for tournaments they had to buy their own liquor. Cardroom receipts ran about $2,000 a year (35? a seat), but that was only ½ of 1% of the club's income. Biggest items were food and drink -nearly $300,000 yearly. Sometimes two-thirds of the club's 1,200-odd members would lunch simultaneously. The secretary could recall only one member having to be suspended for using unsuitable language. On New Year...
...Eugene O'Neill. Preceded by enthusiastic rumors heralding it as the best picture since The Informer, it opened in the situation of a celebrated home-run hitter going to bat with the bases loaded and two out in the ninth inning. That it failed to clear the bases is as much the fault of its advance rooters as it is of the film. Director Ford filled it with respectful piety for the hard impersonality of the sea. In doing so he built 103 minutes of photoplay around a simple character study of the S.S. Glencairn, a slow tramp steamer...
...Seattle, Pastor J. O. Brekke of Zion Church of the Lutheran Brethren, who caught the heaviest salmon to qualify for the Sept. 29 salmon derby (TIME, Oct. 14), recently fished on Sunday, caught nothing, returned in time to confess to his congregation: "It has become clear to me that I allowed the flesh to triumph . . . and suffered a spiritual defeat...