Word: clawful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrowhead of land between the rivers Test and Itchen six miles up the inlet called Southampton Water, the Port of Southampton points a great trap of docks, like a lobster's claw, toward the sea. With that claw in the past two decades Southampton has snapped up most of Britain's passenger ocean traffic, ended a 19th Century slump. For three centuries Southampton's too shallow basin, where King Canute may have spoken to the tide and whence the Pilgrims' Mayflower sailed, had lain nearly empty. Humiliated as a "decayed town," South ampton was further humiliated...
...Queen Victoria's time Southampton began to put out its claw in earnest. Dredges deepened the harbor. In 1892 the then London & South Western Railway took over the docks, so that by 1914 Southampton was No. 1 port of embarkation for Britain's armies. Last week Southamptonites, now eager for the title of world's No. 1 port, felt they were getting somewhere when King George came to open what Britain claims to be the world's biggest dry dock (1,200 ft. long by 135 ft. wide at the entrance...
Earl shouted at him. Suddenly Sunshine turned on his keeper, hugged him tight with one foreleg, clawed him viciously with the other. Keeper Earl shouted for help, wrestled for his life. Guards came running, fired shot after shot at the mad bear. Three shots struck Keeper Earl, the 30th slew the bear. Physicians examining the keeper's body found his lungs ripped open, his intestines bared by great claw strokes. They decided that the bear, not the bullets, had slain Keeper Earl...
...best. It is not to be confused with Washington Merry-Go-Round, which Columbia will presently release, although it contains a shot of a carrousel against the background of the Capitol. It is an adaptation by John Meehan and Samuel Blythe of Author Henri Bernstein's play The Claw. To give the plot pertinence in a presidential year, the scene is Washington instead of Paris, but Lionel Barrymore's role is the one he had in the play. He is Jefferson Keane, an eloquent and stubborn lawyer who gets himself into the Senate by bucking machine politics in Kansas...
Boost & Beneficiaries, Free to pick and claw as it chose, the House consented to a general 11 % cut in the Federal payroll but only after boosting the minimum wage exemption from $1,000 to $2,500.* Packed in the galleries were the embattled beneficiaries of this increased exemption, Government clerks who clapped and cheered with delight. President Hoover's alternative plan of enforced furloughs staggered through the year was summarily rejected by the House. All salaries of the Federal Reserve Board, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Farm Board, the Reconstruction Finance Corp., Veterans' Administration and Tariff Commission were reduced...