Word: brush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...equal, was discovered to be the only American entrant who might come anywhere near "pushing" Canada's Montgomery ("Bud") Wilson, Roger F. Turner, 36-year-old Boston lawyer, was asked to compete. Out of active competition for over two years . . . Turner was given two hours to brush up on his "school figures" and the following day ended up in second place, a good 30 points over third-placer Erie Reiter. The following night Turner maintained his lead by a sparkling free skating performance while Reiter dropped back into fourth position...
...hands she placed Fingertips with these attachments: complexion brush, hair tonic brush, medicine dropper, eyebrow brush, eyebrow pencil, screw driver, paintbrush, pencil, three-bladed manicure tool and crochet needle. She showed how a man could make a fairly complete toilet without putting anything down or picking anything up, predicted that Fingertip-equipped housewives would find it easier to peel oranges, pit grape fruit, scrape pans. Motion pictures showed how the devices were used for drawing, painting, etching, needlework...
...turn came he, too, won the top U. S. bird dog championship, the National Field Trials on the Hobart Ames plantation at Grand Junction, Tenn. One autumn when he had grown old and too slow for quail, the little setter's master took him away from his familiar brush and stubble to the thick pines of Minnesota to hunt grouse. Out of his master's sight one grey afternoon, he was standing on point when a blinding blizzard struck suddenly out of the north, driving the master to cover. Wind, sleet and snow beat down...
...Malley and his men had many a brush with the police, the Black & Tans, the British soldiers, waged a waspish war attacking isolated barracks and police stations, barricading roads, ambushing convoys. He was wounded half a dozen times. One unlucky morning he was captured. Put through a grisly third-degree, beaten up, constantly threatened with death, he was finally clapped into Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin's strongest. Few months later, before his identity had been discovered, he and a few bold comrades escaped. A seasoned veteran now at 24, O Malley was sent back to his guerrilla battlefield, this time...
...bananas, ships and sugar United Fruit Co. made $14,176,000 last year as against $10,359,000 the year before. The white-uniformed salesmen who cry their wares from U. S. roadsides helped Good Humor Corp. increase its net income from $291,000 to $404,000. The Fuller Brush Man was apparently turned away from many a doorstep in 1936, for Fuller Brush Co. reported a dip in profits from $261,000 to $169,000. Radio Corp. reported earnings of about $6,100,000, up $1,000,000 from...