Word: catching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the hunting season beginning, doctors are trying to warn rabbit catchers against tularemia, rabbit fever. Lousy rabbits usually have the disease. Men catch it from handling infected animals, skinning them or eating them poorly cooked...
Indescribable was the confusion. When William Crawford rang the final gong at 3 o'clock, few traders heard it. Exhausted brokers knew it had been a record day, climaxing a record week. They knew they would work all night and all Sunday to catch up. Somehow, the Exchange had managed to turn over 6,641,250 shares of stock in Manhattan's wildest day of speculation...
...sounded like a catch question, but it was doubtless put most earnestly. Prohibiters everywhere viewed the election as a final sealing if not a sanctification of the country's war-bride, Volsteadism...
...convention. On the way the motorbus is stalled, and each passenger tells an inferior Canterbury tale (the title of the book is also from Chaucer). Distinction is reserved for the format of one tale: only those words are set down which Jeremy, dreaming of his love, happens to catch. Stripped of verbosity, the skeleton is a good model for conversational monologists...
...regards clothing and behavior, however, we have regulations, whereas you are governed merely by personal taste. The enforcement of the regulation concerning the wearing of caps and gowns is in the hands of the proctor, who always takes two men with him popularly called "bulldogs" to catch any culprits. It is something of a game of hide-and-seek for the bulldogs cannot fine a student unless they catch him off college grounds...