Word: stringes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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With time running out, second string Marcus Beebe started throwing passes all over the lot, connecting first to Walter Wilson for a 20-yard advance, and then passing 23 yards to John Teal for the score. The game ended on the ensuing kickoff...
...years on the stage, Funnyman Joe Cook has thought up some 1,000 implausible inventions of the Rube Goldberg order, never sold one until last week. Then he sold one for $1,000. It was a doughnut-dunking machine (a pulley-and-string contraption) featured in his present Broadway show, It Happens on Ice. Purchaser was Doughnut Corporation of America. The sale was authentic, the money real. For Doughnut Corp., $1,000 for publicity was cheap...
...Third-string tailback Cliff Helman was added to the re-jerseyed Varsity squad yesterday as it was announced that a delegation of 31' players will make the trip to the City of Brotherly Love. The squad will leave Boston shortly after midnight on Thursday and will practice on Franklin Field early Friday afternoon...
...been popular in Greece. His Government is neither a constitutional monarchy nor a corporative State, but it has those fascist elements of regimentation, government by decree, secret police and a youth movement. There are no civil liberties, but cigarets are cheap and every man can afford a string of beads to twiddle in his idle fingers. Metaxas is Premier, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Cults and National Education, Minister of War, Minister of Marine, Air Minister. His chief hold on the King is a little secret between them: the King, who is always hard up, signed a decree paying...
...revolved, admitted the first of 14,000 opening-day gawkers to Tiffany & Co.'s new store. Before them in fluorescent-lighted showcases lay the toniest U. S. jeweler's dazzling stock: diamond solitaires up to 20½ carats (price: $100,000), pearls (up to $243,000 a string), emeralds, sapphires. The radiance of thousands of stones seemed to spread out and warm the visitors, an effect increased by spotlights hidden in the high soundproofed ceiling. Said Mrs. John F. Bigelow, a Tiffany customer for 40 years: "An inspiring structure with a very social atmosphere. In the old Tiffany...