Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Incidently, this "Kid rig" was a confidence game. Children carrying parcels were accosted by petty thieves acting as messengers, who told the child that they were to relieve him of the burden while he returned to his employer for more urgent business. From this we get the expression "to kid out of." When we kid a person out of some possession, we work...
...large number that place hats and coats on the tables, leaving little space for writing or reading. The library officials have done all in their power to extend the facilities of Widener to those who study there. It now remains for the students to lessen their own burden by displaying a modieum of thoughtfulness and consideration...
...plan additional legislation was recommended so that the city's present investment of $386,000,000 in subway construction will not be considered as part of the municipal debt which is limited by law. The unified system would become self-supporting instead of imposing its present annual tax burden of $13,500,000 on the citizenry. But most tangible factor of all is that the subway-farer would be assured forever of his nickel ride, a prime political issue in New York which re-elected Mayor Hylan in 1921, Mayor Walker...
...demanding food by Feb. 1. Senators Robinson and Caraway of Arkansas were leaders in the unsuccessful fight last month to include food for humans in the $45,000,000 Drought relief bill. Recalled was President Hoover's warning last summer: "From a relief point of view the burden of the [Drought] will show very much more vividly over the winter than at the present moment...
...business. Through the pace-setting enterprise of the Hearst services, and the entry of Associated Press into the picture field, competition has become more costly than ever. Last week P. & A. Photos Inc. (owned by New York Daily News and Chicago Tribune) decided after nine years trial that the burden was unwarranted, sold out to Scripps-Howard's Acme News Pictures Inc. Head of the combined service will be Acme's small, dapper, wisely-smiling President Fred S. Ferguson. To help President Ferguson cover the world as A. P. does, United Press will supply news tips, gather pictures...