Word: exploiter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jones missing that putt and standing with a cigaret in his mouth while he saw Von Elm tap his ball into the hole; while he saw a roistering squad of spectators hoist Von Elm, to their shoulders, while he saw Von Elm, bobbing and blushing after his magnificent exploit; receive the gold cup that meant the national amateur championship...
...Finsteraarhorn, 14,026 ft., the highest mountain in the Bernese Alps. Down to the famed Jungfrau Joch Hotel. Up the Schreckhorn, 13,386 ft. Down to Grindelwald. FOOD. A steak as thick as the climber's thong-bound wrist. Such was the Alpine exploit performed in one day last week by Prince Chichibu, second son of the Mikado of Japan, first Alpinist to scale either the Finsteraarhorn or the Schreckhorn this year...
...Prince, refreshed after a protracted sleep, received news- gatherers, modestly ascribed the success of his exploit to his principal companion, famed Japanese Alpinist Yukomacki...
...carpet-bag" was a traveling bag usually made of carpeting. "Carpet-bagger" came to be applied to fly-by-night adventurers who appeared in the South after the Civil War and set themselves up without any material baggage or backing to exploit the community...
...request of the Senate to tell what the Administration knew of British mining concessions obtained in Panama near the Canal (TIME, June 14), newspaper men in London obtained an interview. The interview was with Duncan E. Alves, chairman of the Panama Corporation, Ltd., the company which was formed to exploit the concessions...