Word: boss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pinehurst young William Burke of Naugatuck, Conn., who used to boss caddies around at the Clearwater Country Club, Clearwater, Fla., took two threes and four fours in a row on the last nine holes, turned in a card of 291 that won the North-South Open, beating by five strokes the card of Tommy Armour, National Open Champion, and by six the card of John Farrell...
...loose music of a brothel piano. Beneath the revelry a vigilant Justice brooded; for Sergeant Mack and his men, though drinking and disorderly were on duty bent. They were present only because it was their function to find out who had shot Tom McGuire, a well known mining boss, depositing his corpse in the alley back of Swede Cora's place...
Latterly great bond houses have trained up a generation of college bond saleswomen, who are always called "salesmen," who are always shouted at by the boss across a field of desks by their last names, and who smoke up the sales rooms. Seventeen ladies are actually partners in Stock Exchange houses. Three of them have applied to the Exchange authorities for admission to membership. "Too much jostling on the floor," the 15 gentlemen of the Committee on Admissions have always sternly replied. "No worse than subways or night-clubs," is the reply of the eager ladies...
...training camps came Boss Ernest S. Barnard, president of the American League, ordered umpires to enforce points never before enforced in baseball. Said Boss Barnard...
...reasons would have curdled blood-or milk. The Department of Commerce was "honeycombed with politics." The country had seen "an ex-city political boss [meaning Walter F. Brown of Toledo] picked up in Ohio and made Assistant Secretary of Commerce." This man was now running the Hoover campaign in Ohio. Therefore, "the campaign of Mr. Hoover for President is being paid for to a large extent out of the Treasury of the United States...