Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Houston, Texas last week, A.F. of L's Hotel and Restaurant Workers' Union demanded that proprietors of drive-in, curb-service restaurants pay their 300 waitresses more money, cover them up. "Those girls wear shorts or grass skirts, rain or shine." said the union's Jack Parm-ley. "Why, their clothing is next to noth-ing." He set a time limit, said he might then call a strike for a clothed shop...
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...incorrectly) meant the inventor of the limerick. To painters it has meant a third-rate landscapist of the second-rate British school. But when grandfather was a little boy, Edward Lear meant a big fat Book of Nonsense with a gilt cat bowing a bull fiddle on the cover. Inside were such "queery Leary" drawings and poems as the Owl and the Pussy-Cat,† The Moppsikon Floppsikon Bear, The Dong with the Luminous Nose. Last week Author Angus Davidson took this nonsensical Englishman seriously enough to publish his first biography...
...work for the London Daily Telegraph before he was 20 and quit the New York Daily Mirror year before last at 73. In 1884 he landed in New York from a freighter and headed west. For three years he rode the range in the Dakotas and Iowa, then covered the trial of a brewer for the murder of a Methodist temperance leader who had put over local option in Sioux City. That got him back into the newspaper business and he moved on to the St. Paul Globe and then the Minneapolis Journal, which paid him $30 a week...
...months. In Chrysler stock (the No. i flier) the short interest had increased 176% to 65,000 shares. Shorts had gauged all too well that business was receding. Overenthusiastic pessimists who had had trouble finding buyers, suddenly found too many buyers. When professional buying began, the shorts ran to cover, joined the buying parade. Result: in two days the Dow Jones Industrial average rose 3.76 points, and stockbrokers enjoyed two successive million-share days-enough to add up to a boom by 1939 standards...