Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order, General Johnson was now empowered to jail and fine such offenders, to "prescribe such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary to . . . carry out the purposes and intent . . . of this order." General Johnson's first prescription emphasized that small merchants and other employers operating under blanket, temporary codes were just as liable to prosecution as those who had signed permanent codes...
...exciting than the act. Or so finds Max Christmann (Tonio Selwart, an ingratiating actor of the Francis Lederer type), a Hessian deserter to the cause of Liberty & Equality. Mistress Prudence, having invited him to bed because firewood is dear, climbs in with her clothes on, sits there with the blanket wrapped about her in the manner of a lap robe and, as a final guarantee of innocence, pulls down a centreboard between them. All this provides Mr. & Mrs. Langner with plenty of material for salty preliminary lines, occupies two acts of their comedy. A fire-eating Virginia cavalryman, a hell...
...metal; the other side was unscathed. The tail unit had been severed just abaft the toilet and was found practically intact about a mile from the wreck. Bodies of Smith and the radio man, untouched by fire, were near the tail section. In the same vicinity lay a blanket, peppered with tiny burned holes, and parts of a bottle. These were rushed to the Crime Detection Laboratory of Northwestern University. Presently United Air Lines announced its findings: The crash was caused by a high explosive. The blast occurred probably in the lavatory cabinet where blankets were stored. Whether the explosive...
...Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. testified in the Food Code hearing that the temporary blanket code had forced them to add 12,000 employes, the yearly payroll by $10,000,000. . . Woolworth last week was reported it was beginning to hire smarter, wage-worthy salesgirls who would actually sell, not simply make change, wrap packages...
That section of Adolf speech which dealt specifically (and with welcome frankness) with Franco-German relations, ought to have thrown a wet blanket over the hot foreign presses. The Chancellor declared in his best manner that only a madman would even consider a war between France and the Fatherland, since 'the sacrifices entailed were so much less than the losses of conflict." Certainly this should have satisfied Europe. But the last war seems to have spawned a great many political sceptics, whose unkind interpretation of Hitler's argument reads something like this: "War at the moment would be disastrous...