Word: dots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Copeland looked hopefully toward the chair where Sergeant-at-Arms Chesley W. Jurney was supposed to sit. The chair was there, but Mr. Jurney's cutaway coat, his polka dot necktie and his big purple handkerchief were not to be seen. On his eminence Senator Pittman called aloud...
Pouncing on the ancient Carmelite monasteries and nunneries which dot the Rhineland and Westphalia, Nazi secret police last week burst in, searched abbots and mother superiors, monks and nuns. One venerable mother superior died of a stroke amid the raids. Next day the Realmgovernment, concealing all details, announced that batches of Carmelites were under arrest for evading Nazi currency control restrictions, smuggling out of the Fatherland some 2,500,000 marks...
Hollis--Billie Burke in "Mrs. Dot...
Home for lunch one day last week, Sergeant Jurney answered the telephone, heard Mr. MacCracken offer to meet him at the District of Columbia jail at 3:45 that afternoon. Sergeant Jurney was there on the dot, but not Mr. MacCracken. He drove up at 4 p. m., explaining that he had started out without knowing just where the jail was, lost his way. Lugging well-labeled suitcases, he marched inside the dingy red building, was searched and fingerprinted. Past the cell-block where ordinary jailbirds are cooped he was led into the mess hall reserved for "short-termers," then...
From 1901, when Steel sprang full-fashioned from the thunderous brow of John Pierpont Morgan the Elder, until 1933, it paid its $7 preferred dividend on the quarterly dot. Then the dividend was cut to $2, and arrears now amount to $36,000,000. A restoration of the dividend would mean only one thing: the presumably sagacious Steel directors were convinced that Steel can earn it and earn it steadily...