Word: grins
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Howard Colwell Hopson could still grin from ear to ear as he boldly taunted a lumbering SEC. Last week the smile and boldness were gone. Ingenious, porcine Howard Hopson, charged with milking his now bankrupt $1,000,000,000 Associated Gas & Electric system of $20,000,000 in the biggest utility peculation of all time, went on trial for mail fraud and conspiracy...
...crowd quieted. Would Willkie admit defeat? Was that grin the smile of a defeated man? Willkie began to speak...
...semiprivate preserve-Latin America-by buying a phenomenally successful line called TACA (Transposes Aereos Centre Americanos). To the superstitious natives of Central America, TACA is a byword with a touch of magic. Many of them who have never seen an automobile cheerfully clamber into a TACA transport, grin across the aisle at U. S. or English businessmen heading to or from Pan Am's main stem...
...from last June, when a dozen petulant Indians stormed into the front office of the Cleveland club, wailed that Manager Oscar Vitt's scoldings got on their nerves, asked President Alva Bradley to fire him. Instead of spanking them, President Bradley coddled his pets, asked them please to grin & bear it for the rest of the season...
...Grin & bear it they did-in the most extraordinary situation since Merkle neglected to touch second base. Last spring the Indians were generally written off as an also-ran in this year's American League pennant race. But, thanks to Pitcher Bob Feller and a pair of rookies, Lou Boudreau and Ray Mack, who made Cleveland's in field the hottest spot in baseball, the In dians found themselves, by mid-August, with a tight grip on first place...