Word: cog
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...galvanized into action. Dressing like a whirlwind, his mind working like a cog, he began to work over countless fearless and colorful ideas. What, for instance, had become of the Student Council's perennially incipient investigation of food? An opening sentence popped into his teeming brain: "Neither the food nor the Student Council has shown any signs of improvement recently...
...year since 1937, 39-year-old Fridolin had written, backed, directed and starred in a revue called Fridolinons, a collection of skits, songs and dances. With it he had toured his native Quebec, drawn some 130,000 people a season, netted an annual profit of about $50,000. Tit-Cog was Fridolin's first try at writing a full-length play...
...Cog has already become Fridolin's biggest hit in his 11 years as an actor. Its run to date has passed the Fridolinons' best (53 performances), seems certain to reach the loo-performance mark before it goes on the road in French Canada. Its success has also brought Manhattan's Theatre Guild agents to Montreal with an offer of about $3,000 a week (on a percentage basis) for an English version for Broadway, with Fridolin, who speaks fluent English, in the lead...
...council met to choose a new mayor from among its own members. There was little doubt that the job would go to a Democrat named Albert D. Cash. Cincinnati had not had a Democratic mayor for 35 years, but Bob Taft's powerful Republican machine had slipped a cog in November. Of nine council seats, it had won only four. The rest had been won by a coalition of Democrats and maverick Republicans, flying the banner of Cincinnati's famed reform organization, the Charter Committee. Charlie Taft had led the Charterites...
...make coaches, but at Soldiers Field Dick Harlow's quarterback of the late 30's has for the last two years held sway as the spirited and successful coach of the Junior Varsity football team. Now one of Harlow's senior lieutenants, Chief Boston is a sizeable cog in the Crimson athletic picture--operating at jobs as scout and head wrestling coach besides at his weekday Jayvee command...