Word: catch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Public thinking is made easy by catch words. It may well be that the Presidential lips will utter some other word more appealing to the public imagination, but if "stability " is to stand it is a landmark in the history of the Administration...
Universities in America are run on business lines. The President speedily becomes the traveling salesman of a body of business Trustees or (in the case of a State university) an expert lobbyist. His bag never unpacked, he is ready to dash into his sleeper to catch the next conference or alumni banquet. He is never in his own library or among his own students...
...take possession of a cross-roads hut in the outskirts of Parras. After three days of waiting they see an automobile coming down from the big ranch in the hills. As the car slows up at the cross-roads they open fire from seven rifles. Of 40 bullets which catch the car, 16 sink into the body of one man. Pancho Villa has been killed by his enemies. He had no chance to draw his own pistols...
...happen when the family fortunes rise and your man suddenly accepts a position as general manager of the chemical factory. You will move up to a small edition of the Ritz in the Social Register section and he will promptly begin staying late at the club. You will catch him having lunch with a vapid vampire and soon he will request a divorce. Then you will go to your father who, fortunately enough, owns the chemical works and tearfully plead for counsel. Your father will advise going to live alone in the bungalow where once you were poor but happy...
...revenue cutters are capable of about 15 knots, which is insufficient to catch the speedier rum runners in a tail chase, but the speed boats, capable of 30 knots, will be more than a match for the outlaws...