Word: tip
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...work, buys a Talisman rose for his buttonhole. Magnificently mustachioed, he drives city editors to despair. They say anybody can walk into Grover Hall's office and persuade him not to run an unpleasant story about a suicide or an automobile smashup. Sometimes he carries a hot news tip around for days without thinking to tell the city desk about...
...bathtub while bullets smashed windows (see cut), killed an engineer, wounded the station master. At the same time, Carol's former Lord Chamberlain Ernest Udarianu had flung his foppish self under a table. Beyond the frontier Carol gave the train crew $2 apiece. One man refused the tip...
Last June 10, at Charlottesville, Va., President Roosevelt slapped Benito Mussolini with his "Stab-in-the-Back" remark. Last week Franklin Roosevelt & Co. jolted Mussolini again. Mexican officials said they acted on a tip from the U. S. State Department when at a border station they pounced on the Italian Legation pouch en route from Washington to Mexico City and broke its seals in violation of the diplomatic immunity of the Italian courier...
...between Formosa and Borneo lie 1,500 miles of water, over which Japan would have to stretch her supply line. Flanking the line are the great British fortress of Singapore, the lesser station at Hong Kong, the U. S. base at Cavite (Manila). Just beyond Borneo's southern tip lies the Dutch base at Surabaya...
Prominent in National Contesters are faculty members from the half-dozen contest schools in the U. S. Conducting their classes by correspondence, the schools charge an average tuition of $25, tip their members off to shrewd contest techniques, criticize contest entries. Typical suggestions: Mail early, keep simple, study your judges. The idiosyncrasies of the judges are much discussed in the forums of the National Contesters. Members often point out that veteran judge Professor Lloyd Dallas Herrold of Northwestern University has a weakness for coagulations like "Temptasty," that Procter & Gamble dislikes rhyming entries. Most National Contesters submit many entries to each...