Word: barreled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Will TIME'S expression: "dry as a cactus" hold water? Desert travelers sometimes split a barrel cactus in half, squeeze the pulp through a cloth, get a cup of sweetish water. The giant cactus, a mass of pulp held together by fibrous ribs, absorbs water on rainy days and swells out like a toad. Woodpeckers drill holes in the trunk, occupy them...
Many an imperial legend clusters about her name. One is traced to American-girl-glorifier Ziegfeld. Then managing strong man Sandow's tour, he boldly invited Mrs. Palmer to the dressing-room. Pantie-clad, Sandow's bulging thews, barrel chest, excited her admiration. "What marvelous muscles!" Sandow tautened his biceps. "Feel them," he said. Mrs. Palmer did. Precedent was established. Thenceforward, claims Ziegfeld, thirty women appeared after each performance, prodded and pinched the chuckling Sandow...
...such occasions for their own and their country's aggrandizement. . . . ." With regard to American loans to the associated powers, he wrote to the President in August, 1917, that "as long as we have money to lend, those wishing to borrow will be agreeable, but when the bottom of the barrel is reached, it may be a different story...
...young people, with quotations from pastors and university presidents. Then he flayed "the record," with special reference to G. O. P. enforcement methods in his own New York as exposed by Chester P. Mills, onetime Federal enforcement officer for the Manhattan area. "Prohibition ... the new political pork barrel...
Last week the National Air carnival at Mines field reached its climax. A Navy aviator climbed 10,000 feet in four-and-a-half minutes. An Army flier, Lieut. J. J. Williams was killed in formation stunt flying, Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh took his place, continued Immelman turns, loops, barrel rolls. But a Navy trio gave a superior exhibition of stunts...