Word: bosoms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this time a wordy battle was going on in Insull's apartment between Mrs. Insull and the spectacular Mme Zahra Couyoumdjoglou, wife of a Bagdad date merchant who has been a bosom friend of Samuel Insull since his arrival in Athens. Mrs. Insull had wanted her husband to surrender and take his chances in the U. S. courts. That seemed too prosaic for Mme Couyoumdjoglou who arranged the Odyssey of the Maiotis...
Last week's events made a Roman holiday for cartoonists. General Johnson had invited every one with a kick against NRA codes to come to Washington and make it. One cartoonist portrayed the General with swelling bosom standing before the huge and hungry lion of Public Opinion while a placard announced "General Johnson will positively put his head in the Lion's mouth." Another had the General standing back to back with a jackass ("Great American Kicker"), and urging "Go on kick, I dare ya to!" A third had the embattled General surrounded with snowballs, brickbats and dead...
...alive. The squabble between newspapers and radio began in earnest last summer when Columbia started its own news-gathering bureau. In two months Paul White, onetime United Pressman, had organized a staff of 600 correspondents. Columbia's News Service was successful but NBC, whose President Aylesworth is a bosom crony of A. P.'s Kent Cooper, had not had time to project a similar bureau before newspapers began strenuously objecting to Columbia's. Radio men know they are likely to need the support of newspapers if and when the Government tries to make radio stations pay special...
...gathered, some one telephoned the police, and Patrolman McGinty answered the call to duty. With quick efficiency he gathered the animal in his arms--then the trouble started. Bawl on bawl rent the air; wildly the calf waved his spindly legs. Frantically the officer clutched his burden to his bosom. It was no use; there are limits to human ability. With a grant of relief Mr. McGinty dropped the ungrateful creature. "This is a two-man job," he decided...
...Aryan clause," but non-Nazi pastors rallied 3,000 strong to denounce the Nazi "German Christians." Risking reprisals from Nazi Storm Troopers, they read out from 3,000 pulpits throughout the Reich a stinging protest directed, by implication, at the Nazi State itself. "Heathendom has penetrated into the bosom of our church," they read. "Many Christians have to submit their consciences to human leaders, in contradiction of the essence of the Church...