Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expression had reached the Press where U. S. Customs officers were referred to as "Uncle Sam's Men." That year the Troy Post, apparently ignorant of Uncle Sam Wilson's initialed meat barrels, declared: "This cant name has got almost as current as 'John Bull.' The letters U. S. on Government wagons are supposed to have given rise to it." The Gazette of the U. S. (Philadelphia) in 1816 explained that a countryman, meeting a regiment of light dragoons, asked what the U. S. L. D. on their caps meant and was told "Uncle...
...been professionally presented for a long time. Ridden to death is the story of a poor young tennis player (Mr. Overman), who must pawn a cup he has not quite won for keeps. Included in the complications are a fake holdup, a real holdup, beer, neighbors, a bull pup, a baby. Also joining in the ruckus is a visitor from Atlanta whose attempt at the dialect of that city is an atrocity...
...bull was suggested to Tobaccoman Green by the bull's neck on the seal of Durham, England, trade-mark of Coleman's mustard. Three smokers of Bull Durham were James Russell Lowell, Thomas Carlyle, Alfred Lord Tennyson...
...been expected, it was largely a "light-plane show," about half the planes on display falling into the price range between $1,000 and $3,000. Notable among the "flivver planes" were Stout's Sky Car (TIME, April 13), the Buhl Bull Pup, Curtiss-Wright Junior, the Aeronca and the Heath...
...factories have been recent converts to the five-day week. Some Ford plants run on a five-day, some on a three-and-one-half-day schedule. But the five-day week of 1931 differs in one notable respect from the five-day week of 1928 and 1929: The Bull Market theory was to cut the time but not the wages; the Bear Market theory is to cut both...