Word: carded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heckle-Proofed. From Iowa's 102 counties careful Hooverizers had picked 10,000 good Republicans who were admitted only by card to the Coliseum?a friendly, heckle-proof audience. The President's appeal to them, always earnest, sometimes touching, was for understanding and appreciation. Out of its sing-song monotony his voice occasionally lifted to a tremulous note...
...holes because her first nine score was 33. At the short 17th she dropped two strokes again but finished with one of the few rounds below 70 ever scored by a woman, one under men's par and only two over the men's course record. Her card...
...problem of rearrangement would undoubtedly be too great for any Harvard man, tutored in the traditions and history of the College. The University should commission Frank Buck, the explorer, to penetrate the great Meldweson, famous card catalogue of the Berlin police, and from thence bring back a bespectacled Prussian, who would be equal to the task of putting the "Announcement" in an orderly, alphabetical and numerical arrangement, with cross-references to related courses...
...cutters dropped down into the vault, burned their way through more steel into a safety deposit room. Aided by a card index, they cut into 350 boxes in which Koch clients, distrustful of banks, were hoarding their cash. Jewelry and securities were untouched. At 4 a. m. Sunday the robbers departed with loot estimated at $250,000 in cash. Chicago police blamed a gang of New York specialists for the city's biggest burglary in nearly a decade...
...Hoover received: 1) a cake baked aboard the new S. S. Manhattan; 2) a cake with 58 candles baked at the White House; 3) a croaker; 4) a Boy Scout scroll; 5) a song by youngsters from Pittsburgh ("Happy Birthday, dear President, happy birthday to you!"); 6) a greeting card with some 40,000 signatures, including those of Democratic Governors Roosevelt, Ritchie...