Word: booted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Readers of the Chicago Daily News were recently tantalized and vexed by a tale which its star correspondent, Julian F. Haas, cabled from Nicaragua. The story concerned the U. S. lieutenant "who has the reputation of having the largest foot in the Marine Corps. . . . Every shoe or boot that he requires has to be made to order...
Died. Capt. Luther Sage ("Yellowstone") Kelly, 79, famed Indian scout, foe of Sioux Chief Sitting Bull, veteran of Alaska and the Philippines; in Paradise, Calif. Capt. Kelly willed that he be buried in Boot Hill Cemetery (Billings, Mont.), where lie some 40 rascals and heroes who died "with their boots...
...week, at the garage of the U. S. Military Academy there was a fire which destroyed the limousine of Major General W. R. Smith and other government property to the value of $60,000. The fire was started by a spark which sprang from a soldier's hobnailed boot...
...Sins of Norfolk, was sued for libel, was hailed before a Grand Jury where he confessed that it was all based on what "somebody" had told him. The commotion began when Dr. Straton tried in vain to get a pardon for a Baptist friend who had been convicted of boot-leggery. It ended when his Baptist flock asked the preacher to quit them...
...able Vice President Francis Hinckley Sisson of the Guaranty Trust Co: "This is one of the by-products of prosperity with which we have not learned to dal." Warned the wise Cleveland Trust Co.: "Clearly a reform is needed in New York banking practice." Screamed the financial writers, sensationally: "Boot leg Loans! Outlaw Banking!" Depressed, discouraged, the bond market fell to 98.29, the year's new low. But the stockmarket, still optimistic, held its own, advanced a little...