Word: catchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last 20 years he never took any exercise. He never touched alcohol. His only other notable divertissement was his elaborate Hawthorne Farm at Libertyville. It broke his heart that, when he stayed out in the country, the first train that he could catch in the morning did not get him to his office until 8:20. Such was his model life. Aside from his middle-class English hatred of publicity, which led him sometimes to wave a gold-headed cane at photographers, he was not an ominous figure. Some industrial opponents hated him, but as a successful manager of utilities...
Thanks to the Senate Banking & Currency Committee, public knowledge of private affairs has been broadened more in the past two years than in any similar period of U. S. history. Last week the Committee's catch-all investigation threw new light not only on the profits of brokers (see p. 66) but also on closed Cleveland banks. For the failure of $250,000,000 Union Trust Co. and $148,000,000 Guardian Trust Co. Ferdinand Pecora's staff blamed: 1) mismanagement; 2) a lax-Ohio Banking Department; 3) evasions of the spirit of the law. The investigators declared...
...times highly annoying, but any breath of an English accent is as nectar to the American public and per se assures the picture of success, as is borne out by the reactions of the audience in the present case. So also any joke which the audience does not catch, goes as an extremely subtle Anglicism and draws hearty guffaws...
...track coach he would be a dead failure. In the game with Andover last Saturday the captain of the schoolboys asked for a courtesy runner. Frank surveyed the occupants of the Andover dugout in an attempt to decide which of the subs would be easiest to catch off bases. Right in the middle of the bench sat a youth weighing upwards of 200 pounds. "Easy out," Frank decided. When the stout one was safely located on first, the Andover captain remarked, "Oh, by the way, that chap can do the 100 in 10 seconds flat...
...smashing rocks. In quest of the precious, bluish-white metal called tin, they found only dull reddish dirt. The Indians, craving alcohol and coca leaves, wanted to quit. One day they cracked out a few grains of tin. Later a full-fledged vein was uncovered. The Bolivian went to catch some Ilamas, loaded them with tin ore, plodded down to La Paz. Soon all Bolivia had heard that Simon Patino, onetime grocer's clerk, was growing rich...