Word: bowling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself painfully on the lip, and couldn't find a shoe-horn. The coffee always tasted stale the way he made it, and he away fried the eggs too long so that they were greasy and brown. The morning paper wouldn't stay propped up against the sugar-bowl. Perfunctorily, he pecked his wife goodbye on the cheek,. hoping that she wouldn't wake...
...Last fortnight the cotton textile code was approved with a 40-hour week and a $12 wage. When he was deluged last week with other codes submitted for approval, General Johnson discovered that none of them came up to his standard. Undaunted, he scheduled a mass of "gold fish bowl" hearings for this week and next...
...outdoor music season which was launched last fortnight (TIME, July 10), was by last week in full blast from coast to coast. The Hollywood Bowl concerts, run by a new group of sponsors called the Symphonies Under the Stars Foundation, were definitely scheduled to open with reduced admission prices and a new series of twilight concerts on Sundays. Bickering about musicians' pay had finally been settled and Los Angeles felt pleased with the prospect of 32 summer concerts...
Cotton Textiles. "We're gonna do this job in a goldfish bowl. We'll listen to everybody before we get through," promised General Johnson, referring to public hearings on all codes before their submission to the President for final approval. First "goldfish" to go on exhibit in the Washington bowl was the cotton textile industry. Week before a cotton textile code had been turned in to General Johnson. He thought the industry had done "a very beautiful job" even though its minimum wage fell $4.40 per week short of General Johnson's own standard and its maximum...
...called "the best known North American in Central and South America." though Princeton's Dr. Edwin Walter Kemmerer, currency adviser to 13 nations, might well dispute this title. Nicaraguans remember how, to prevent repeating, Dr. Dodds caused the finger of every voting Nicaraguan to be dipped in a bowl of mercurochrome at the polls...