Word: corking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prize of $2,000 for a national campaign for a specific product was won by Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborn, Inc., New York. The campaign which they had conducted was that of Armstrong's, Linoleum Floors, a product of the Armstrong Cork Company...
Waller, a native of County Cork, Ireland, has had a distinguished career as Secretary of the League of Nations Society of Ireland, during which time he has been present at various Congresses of the Federation of the League of Nations Societies all over Europe, as well as at the Assembly itself...
...Vivian scooped up the loose ends of wire, held them tightly together in one hand. An arc burned his hand. To close the arc he squeezed harder. The harder he squeezed, the more current leaked into his arm, made it jerk crazily. Had he not been standing on a cork-insulated floor, had he not kept clear of a well-grounded duct a few inches from his foot, the 220-volt current would have killed...
...lowered. In their oldest clothes hilarious passengers who had never bisected the Equator before, trooped from bar to boat deck. Up the boarding ladder came His Majesty King Neptune, shrouded in whiskers, accompanied by his Queen, his Barber, the members of his Court, all liberally smeared with burnt cork...
...Sheehan was born in Buffalo, N. Y. in 1883. His father came from County Cork. His uncle was the late Bishop Richard A. Sheehan of Waterford & Lismore. Winnie Sheehan, at the age of 15, fought in the Spanish American War (as private, then corporal in the 202nd regment). His first job was reporting for the Buffalo Courier. Later he went to Manhattan, was police reporter for the New York Evening World. During the administration of Mayor William J. Gaynor he was secretary to the Fire Commissioner and later to the Police Commissioner. He joined Cineman Fox on Jan.1...