Word: tying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inside the clubhouse later, Frank Capra caused Pasadena eyebrows to rise by appearing without a tie...
...annual H--Y--P triangular debate ended in a three-way tie last night as each home team upheld the New Deal and won. Yale remains nominal champion by virtue of its 1939 victory...
Andover copped the remaining firsts in the 100-yard, 220-yard, and 440-yard dashes, the hammer throw and the discus. Ford jumped to a tie with Carter of Andover in the high jump, clearing the bar at six feet, with Parsons of Andover third...
Also last week came the annual report of the Public Morality Council, signed by its chairman, the Rt. Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Bishop of London, 52, an athletic, old-school-tie moralist with a wife and six sons whom he calls his "seven assets." P. M. C. was highly alarmed about "importuning in the streets" from noon until dawn in the Hyde Park, Piccadilly, Victoria, Bond, Regent and Oxford Street areas, by English, French, German, Italian and Welsh tarts aged 20 to 60. A careful checkup revealed an average of 91 importunists per hour in one street. Two police officers...
...tie-up between politics and mobs was in practice intricate and devious, but Raymond & Thompson give a useful diagram of the mechanism. Founded on Tammany use of hoodlums and floaters to get out the vote and win elections in the 23 assembly districts of Manhattan, the mechanism involved Tammany gratitude to these instruments. Tammany gratitude was partially expressed through mayor-appointed magistrates-a tie-up very shocking to good people when the Seabury investigation brought it out in 1930-31. Judge Seabury's recommendation-that the appointment of magistrates be removed from politics-has never been followed...