Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reason for this abrupt abandonment of the long-skirted mode: On the second day the Heavens opened, shot a bolt of lightning which killed popular Bookie Walter Holbein as he was accepting bets, then poured such a Biblical deluge that water backed up six inches deep in parts of the Royal Enclosure, svelte ladies lost their shoes in the mud, everyone's long skirt got spattered and trampled, picture hats were lost, soaked and crushed in the mad scramble for cover, everyone's car or bus seemed to stick in the mire, and long after dark bedraggled gentlemen...
...General Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell;* associate editor of Boys' Life. Age: 80. Date: June 21. Celebration: opening presents from boy and men admirers all over the U. S. at his home, Brooklands, near Suffern, N. Y. Some of the presents: an alligator skin from Florida; a bolt of homespun from the Kentucky Blue Ridge Mountains; catlinite (reddish slate) peace-pipe from Indians in Minnesota; a coonskin cap from the Carolinas; a bronze bucking broncho from the Executive Board of B. S. A.; riding chaps from Texas; a blanket from Navajo Indians...
...Alfred Emanuel Smith. A bitter hater, he still flaunts his opposition to the Tammany wing of his party, balks at reconciliation. This year he is a candidate for reelection to the Senate. Against him in the June primary are younger men and forces who would punish him for his bolt. At stake is his State leadership. Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: though age has blunted his legislative effectiveness, he remains a potent Democratic force in the Senate. He commands Republican respect and attention, if not votes. His mind is clear and active. Unlike his politics at home, his Senate...
During the last week stockholders of the Dardelet Threadlock Corp. were receiving rights to subscribe to more stock for $100 a share. Small was the chance that any stockholder would forfeit his privilege, for from many pages of formulae, Commandant Dardelet succeeded in creating a bolt that will not shake loose...
...principle of the Dardelet Threadlock is that a nut remains fixed when its friction on a bolt is greater than its friction against the face of the part that is being clamped. By mathematically designed taperings on the thread, the Dardelet nut and bolt become wedged into one mass, cannot possibly shake loose, yet are uninjured when separated. Separation is accomplished easily with a wrench...