Word: grabbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until Sir Patrick gets to Hudson's Bay House in Winnipeg will he decide just where to visit. Then, says he, "All I have to do is to grab my hat and hop in a plane. The boys know I don't need much out there." Out there, "the Bay," as the company is known, has more than 200 trading posts for the governor to choose from...
...written from the groin." Rockwell Kent and James T. Farrell began a celebrated feud on the show. Dorothy Thompson ripped into Author Henry Morgenthau Jr. (Germany Is Our Problem) with such vigor and at such length that the moderator had to reach over the table and grab her by the arms to make her shut up. She sheepishly admitted: "I guess I am getting old and can't stop talking...
...tough, glum, nickel-pinching, semi-illiterate and vindictive. When he left the seat of a dump cart for politics, he cultivated Democratic Boss Paddy Griffin so obsequiously that he was nicknamed "Me Too Barney." But when Paddy got sick in 1925, McFeely had what he needed to grab Paddy's power: he controlled the police and fire departments and thus almost all Democratic campaign funds...
...South Philadelphia he was famed as a deadly accurate pool shooter. Many an afternoon he shuffled into his father's barber shop and heard his Pa say: "Willie, there's a man in the back room who thinks he's better than you." Willie would grab a cue and go to work-with Pa betting as high as $100 on his boy. Business was brisk, and Willie got better with...
...They grab and hoard...