Word: cribbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French and all other designers guard their new styles from each other like atomic-bomb secrets (no customers can get into Sophie's salon unless they have been "introduced" and she is sure they aren't there to crib her ideas). But after their showings they are glad to have American style-cribbers buy them to copy; it is a large part of their business. Sophie was returning from such a Paris mission in 1931, when, on the last day out, Adam called her by ship-to-shore phone from New York: "Hold your breath...
...mortality. Several big "X" (for experimental) projects had been quietly stowed away on the back of the shelf, and a good many marginal titles had been quietly junked by their publishers. Last week, adless, pocket-sized Pageant, one of the likelier-looking war babies, was dying in its handsome crib...
...gray-streaked hair parted in the middle. His bearing is impressive and authoritative, and he is ready to tackle any sort of knotty problem which may be baffling his underlings. To cite one instance out of many, a proctor had begun to suspect an examinee of resorting to a crib sheet, but wasn't sure enough to make an issue of it. Mr. Leonard took over masterfully by casually asking the suspect to move to another seat: in the process of moving the tell-tale slip of paper fell to the floor...
...your baby neurotic? Does he cry at night, suck his thumb, bang his head against the crib, wet the bed, talk or walk in his sleep? If so, he may be getting too much sleep. This conclusion has been forced on British Child Psychiatrist J. A. McCluskie, long a student of dissatisfied babies...
...Detroit an anniversary went unnoted: the Kaiser-Frazer Corp. was one year old. But no cake and candles were needed to tell established automakers last week that U.S. industry's noisiest postwar baby was about ready to climb out of the crib. Even those who still scoffed at K-F's extravagant promises now looked with respect toward Willow...