Word: corking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chose for their 1940 president Phi Beta Kappa Prentis of Armstrong Cork. Said he: Businessmen "must recognize their historical mission as preservers of human liberty . . . eliminate unethical practices in their own enterprises ... be keenly conscious of the social significance of their day-by-day decisions ... be industrial statesmen rather than mere businessmen...
...that company. There were tough, jut-jawed Steelmaster Ernest Tener Weir, chairman of National Steel, smartest little steelman in the U. S.; sleek, youngish Edgar Monsanto Queeny of Monsanto Chemical, whose dignified diversion is Republican politics (finance committee) in Democratic Missouri; scholarly Henning Webb Prentis Jr., president of Armstrong Cork, No. 1 U. S. linoleum producer; rock-ribbed John Howard Pew, president of Sun Oil Co., financial angel of the Republican Party in Pennsylvania; long-nosed Lammot du Pont, beardless patriarch of the U. S.'s most famed family industry; Du Pont-in-law Donaldson Brown, vice chairman, financial...
Speakers included: Non-Veterans Mary Pickford and Henry Ford; British and French representatives, who made restrained pleas for the Allied cause; and General Hugh S. Johnson, who had been actively fermenting since World War II began and at Chicago finally blew out the cork. His big idea: Stay out of war. Why? Because: "We all went out in the last war to abolish all former diplomatic games of seven-toed pete with deuces wild. . . . With smiles and smirks our associates accepted our childish enthusiasms-while they took our money and our lives. . . . We were told we were going...
Today one may buy a domestic set (two racquets, a bird and a net) for as little as $1.45; or one may pay $45 for an elegant imported British set (with Spanish-cork, French-kid-covered, Czecho-Slovakian-goose-quilled birds) like those used by Bette Davis, Pat O'Brien, Douglas Fairbanks and other Hollywood enthusiasts. Although serious badminton addicts play indoors where there is no breeze to affect the true flight of their birds, many a tournament player, such as Mrs. George Wightman (donor of the Wightman Cup), Tennist Sidney Wood and William Faversham Jr., plays outdoors with...
Other lawn games: deck tennis, lawn darts (with a cork target set on a wooden backstop), clock golf, rope quoits, paddle tennis, lawn cricket (a juvenile version of the British game), lawn hi-li (played on a court similar to badminton with wicker baskets instead of racquets and a narrow cord instead of a net), penguin skittles (a complicated version of ninepins with wooden penguins to knock down...