Word: corking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picked wool therefrom to line their nests; Elmer Sweetdcw tapped his sugar bush, found a pail with whiskey in it next morning, reached into a knothole in the tree and pulled out a whiskey bottle placed there by a hired man years ago. He had drilled directly into the cork in tapping the tree. . . . HOWARD E. HAGGSTROM...
...more than $1,000,000 were Young & Rubicam (Castoria, Fels Naptha, Grape-Nuts, Packard); Benton & Bowles (Best Foods, Colgate-Palmolive-Peet); Erwin Wasey (Real Silk Hosiery, Musterole, Zemo, Bost Toothpaste); N. W. Ayer (Deerfoot Sausage, Eno's Salts, Henry Ford) ; Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn (Atwater Kent, Armstrong Cork, Gold Dust, General Electric); Ruthrauff & Ryan (Campbell Soup, Cocomalt, Gillette, Rinso); Stack-Goble (Swift, Freeman Shoes, Bromo-Quinine) ; Newell-Emmett (Sunshine Biscuits, Chesterfields) ; McCann-Erickson (BeechNut Packing, National Biscuit, Vaseline...
...teacher finishes chalking sums on the Multi-Use Blackboard Fixture. The pupils step up, reverse the individual sections of the board, pull them out like easels, set to work painting, their work pinned to a cork surface...
...Cork sent up a cheer and the tall, big-handed man with a wart on his nose ducked his bald head shyly. When he got the job of U. S. Minister to the Irish Free State last September, William Wallace McDowell was chairman of the Democratic Central Committee in Montana and could have anything he wanted, within reason. Said he: "I wanted to be Minister in some country where they speak the English language. I've been mining copper for 35 years now, and most of the mines out there were dug by the Irish. They sometimes call Butte...
...still drinking when the police took him in. During his years in an English prison Leo lost the last of his holdings to an older brother and acquired instead a personal hatred of England. The rest of his life in a small town and in the city of Cork was spent in organizing spasmodic, futile revolts. His nephew, Johnny Hussey, who had risen in the world by becoming a policeman, sent him to prison again for trying to ship arms into the country. But before he died old Leo had the satisfaction of seeing Johnny's young son Dennis denounce...