Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...black chimpanzee, shook the bars of his cage. Irritated, a lion roared into the instrument. Sea lions, excited with fish, grunted and barked. Monkeys chattered, birds screeched, an elephant snorted, a tiger growled, all very obligingly. But Peter, a large hippopotamus, plunged to the bottom of his tank, made not a single grunt. Coyotes, who generally bark when 5 o'clock whistles blow in Manhattan, were fooled by the siren of a fire engine at 4 o'clock, refused to bark again at 5 for the radio audience...
...repealed in about five years, I think. There are five sovereign States [New York, Maryland, Wisconsin, Montana, Nevada] now in revolt against this measure. . . . Three out of four Americans are in revolt. . . . This is the driest Congress we have ever had or ever will have. We have reached the bottom of the hill. The halcyon days of Prohibition are over. The tide is turning...
...Angeles, the Rev. Sheldon Shephard of the First Universalist Church, donned a diving helmet, married Katie Wilson, 25, and J. F. Gutrick, 26, at the bottom of a swimming pool...
...rioted wildly, stoned police. State employment officials at Chicago reported two jobs for every five applicants. In New York breadlines grew longer and longer. A 20-year record for sheltering men, women and children at the Municipal Lodging House was broken. Employment at the Brooklyn Navy Yard hit rock bottom when the U. S. laid off 1,156 skilled workmen, one-third of the yard's force. Meanwhile businessmen waited for the predicted industrial pickup...
...outfitting elaborate drinking rooms in smart U. S. homes (TIME, Sept. 9). For homes in the medium income brackets, specially constructed bars are purchasable at about $200. Last week the Woodworkers' Guild, No. 103 Lafayette St., Manhattan, reasoning that liquor drinking also occurs in homes at the bottom of the income scale, and that poor people might also prefer to imbibe in stylish and fashionable surroundings, offered such drinkers a collapsible bar with a real brass rail...