Word: poking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Questions? G.O.P. Congressmen who attempted airy political banter with suave Sidney Hillman, a veteran of 35 years of left-wing dialectics, found him one too many for them. Representative Clarence J. Brown, of Blanchester, Ohio (pop. 1,785), tried to poke fun at the P.A.C. claims to nonpartisanship. Said he: was it not true that Hillman's own New York local had supported Tom Dewey for district attorney...
...even wartime shortages of materials under the Nazis could hamper Paris style. Hats grew huge, vast, fantastic as imagination ran riot and millinery grew scarce. Now a common sight in Paris streets are poke bonnets of brilliant-colored straws, some 18 inches tall, and veil-draped hats reminiscent of the voluminous headgear worn by turn-of-the-century motorists. Earrings are enormous and unorthodox. Some, as big as oranges, dangle from ear to shoulder. Shoes, because leather was scarce, are wooden-soled with wedge heels three inches high...
John P. Marquand, best-selling satirist whose last novel So Little Time took sundry pokes at the Book-of-the-Month Club (one poke: "She did not want to have books picked out for her beforehand by ... the Book-of-the-Month Club."), and was the most popular Book-of-the-Month for 1943, joined the Club's editorial board.* This made his future books ineligible for selection, but Marquand declared he was glad "to be in a position to exploit American writers," and forgot about his past poking: "Don't blame me for what my characters...
...Poke Pincher...
Ratty. In Goldsboro, N.C., a drunk, unable to pay his $1.40 fine, was locked up to "sit it out." While sitting it out, he saw a rat with something in its mouth poke its head through a hole in the wall...