Word: whacking
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week the whole Senate had a whack at it. Senator La Follette offered a carefully simple substitute bill (along Treasury lines), was turned down. Senator Josh Lee offered an amendment to "draft wealth" through forced loans, was turned down. But most of the debate centred on an irrelevant amendment by Senator Prentiss M. Brown of Michigan. His proposal: to end tax exemption on interest from all future issues of Federal, State and municipal bonds. Senator Brown, a liberal Democrat who is not always a New Dealer, headed a special Senate committee which has been studying the question...
MAYHEM IN B-FiAT-Elliot Paul-Random House ($2). Moritz the miraculous Boxer (a dog) makes his debut with the familiar cast of Homer Evans, detective, dead-eye Miriam, Inspector Fremont and his dusky Hydrangea, Hjalmar Jansen the crockery smasher, the Singe, Godo the Whack, et al., roister-doistering from Paris to Rouen and back by water, land and haystack. Funniest murder story yet from veteran Mr. Paul, whose higher-browed books include The Life & Death of a Spanish Town...
...Palace, stuck flowers in their hair instead and went to swank Grosvenor House. For this war year there will be no court presentations of debutantes, and-at a loss to London caterers, florists, et al. of $3,000,000-no individual debut balls. It was all done at one whack at the Grosvenor, and it was the biggest social event in London since break...
...service and complain that the *Of the rest, 79% are Bell, some 3% mutual system is so lackadaisical about repairs that they frequently have to make them themselves. No less archaic is the company's pole policy. When poles blow down or rot away, line men whack off the diseased portion, resink the stub into the ground. Result is that subscribers sometimes have to stoop to get under the wires...