Word: belt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tribune a picture entitled: "This will make the race interesting to watch," showing Candidate Hoover hot-footing it away from a spot labelled Indiana with his trousers clutched in his hands at the waist to keep them from falling down. The clutching was necessary because an article labelled "Corn Belt" had burst in two around the Hoover middle, to the glee of bystanders...
Marlen Pew, editor of Editor & Publisher, uncovered last week an amazing tale of the Florida celery belt...
...Hoppin, known as a careful pilot,* met a nasty-looking rain squall between Binghamton and Cortland, N. Y. He thought it best to land and selected a field on a stock farm. The field was knobbly. The ship bounced and turned a somersault. Mr. Sweet, having unbuckled his safety-belt, was pitched against the cockpit wall. A head blow killed him. Lieut. Hoppin, belted in his seat, was unbruised...
Nathan Hayward '95, president of the American Dredging Company, president of the American Shipyard Company, vice-president of the Philadelphia Belt Line Rail Road Company, and a director and trustee of several other concerns...
...taking thought for the sole purpose of reducing weight is new. Caesar distrusted the lean man, so Shakespeare tells us, and thought him fit only for "treason, stratagems and spoils". But now he is raised in his fellow-man's estimation, and instead of a dagger in his belt he will more probably have a Phi Beta Kappa charm on his watch chain...