Word: neatest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Neatest Davey comeback was his declaration : "I know absolutely nothing about the financial affairs of the Democratic State Committee. . . . My lack of knowledge in matters of this kind is exactly the same as the President's lack of knowledge of how Mr. Farley raised the money to make up the deficit in the financial affairs of the National Committee...
Sugar Bowl At New Orleans, a huge sugar bowl containing two little girls dressed in the colors of Temple and Tulane, was dragged onto the field to be greeted by a Father New Orleans in cavalier's costume. Neatest play of an exciting, well-played contest came in the second quarter when Tulane's Quarterback Mc-Daniel caught a Temple kickoff, ran to the right to draw tacklers, then threw a lateral pass to his teammate Monk Simons who scampered 75 yd. for a touchdown. Two more Tulane touchdowns in the last half outweighed Temple's early...
Sirs: . . . Finally TIME has performed the neatest bit of magic to date-it has converted gliding and soaring into Transport, of all things [TIME, Oct. 8]. Poor impractical me, I had always had the benighted notion that motorless flying was just pure useless sport. I'm glad TIME put me right, though. Now I won't have to wait any longer for the $700 airplane; I'll just get myself a sailplane and soar out to see the world. . . . ROBERT B. RENFRO...
...Premier any more." Soon he heard the roar of airplane engines swooping over the city. Outside officers barked commands boldly in the streets. Until the next morning the Army held Sofia and the provincial cities paralyzed. Only then did Bulgarians find out what had happened -the neatest and most peaceful coup d'etat the Balkans had ever seen...
...puzzled when a Perfect Couple, long married, split up for the valid but private reasons that he cannot stand her long fingernails, she his audible yawns. A wife from whose life the glory has departed clings to her faith in the glamour of actresses-and then meets one. Neatest job of the lot: "Here We Are," a dialog between bride and groom just after the wedding; few experienced husbands or wives will be able to restrain their shouts over this...