Word: slewed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...balding, mustached Ed McGrady will try to do for Secretary Stimson and the Army what a whole slew of conciliators for the War Department and Advisory Defense Commission was unable to do without a strike-as at Vultee. Universally respected by management and labor for fair dealing and wise counsel, Ed McGrady at 68 will serve, without pay, as Secretary Stimson's labor trouble shooter...
...richly laden shelves, librarians had taken down the Morgan Library's best 9th to 19th-Century bestiaries, travel books, mythologies, collected fables, lives of animal-loving saints, set their animal pictures under glass for the public. Daniels and St. Jeromes fondled lions in their dens, St. Georges slew dragons by the lanceful; behemoths, leviathans out of Job and seven-headed monsters out of Revelations reared and pranced on many an ancient parchment. An old Flemish manuscript showed St. Margaret being disgorged Caesarean-wise by a repentant dragon who had swallowed her. A fox ogled out-of-reach grapes...
Small Pickings. In the South, a neglected Axis partner also visited France. Accompanied by Marshal Pietro Badoglio and a slew of Fascist bigwigs, Benito Mussolini slipped across the Franco-Italian frontier at Piccolo San Bernardo. His inspection was brief because few morsels had been dropped from the Nazi carving board for the eager Duce...
These sad-eyed lyrics, set to a mournful, slew-footed tune, were written by Negro Jesse Stone, onetime Chicago band leader, now an arranger in a theatre in New York's Harlem. Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. published WPA in sheet music. Last spring Decca made a record of it in its "race" (euphemism for Negro) catalogue. WPA was not the first topical song on Government work relief. Decca had released Working for the PWA; Working on the Project; Lost My Job on the Project; Don't Take Away My PWA ["Mr. President, listen to what I have...
...Knut Posse was a 15th-Century warrior of the pro-Sweden party. In 1495 he became master of Viipuri Castle, whence he led a historic battle against the Russians. In 1500, Russians slew...