Word: field
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...office where directors of a colossal liquor syndicate, said to have a monopoly of the metropolitan supply, were known to meet, plan operations, declare fabulous dividends. Records the raiders found, but no directors. "BIGGEST DRY RAID" blared press headlines the next morning. A picked detachment of raiders invaded the field headquarters of the syndicate, an isolated 20-room mansion high on a New Jersey headland, onetime country house of the late Oscar Hammerstein, black cigar & light opera tycoon. Oriental rugs, costly new furniture adorned the living rooms. Beneath the house were labyrinthine tunnels where boatloads of liquor could be stored...
...interview which extended over days, the matchmaker said: "There is not a single competitor with sufficient influence upon the different markets to cause us any really serious harm. No market is sufficiently significant to be of importance to us. The reason is that the whole world is our field...
...Marsters, running, passing, plunging, kicking star of the Green, leading intercollegiate scorer, All-American prospect and the most dangerous and spectacular man on the field today...
...what I do want to say, and say strongly is that I think these stories about Harvard and Princeton proselyting athletes are wrong. Why shouldn't a baseball player sell peanuts on Soldiers Field during the fall? Why should that place Harvard in the position of being accused of subsidizing athletes...
...course, the Vagabond, is first and last a student, free lance though he may be. The point today is a little change of scene. From the anthropology lecture halls and laboratories with their pieces of chipped flint out into the open. A little anthropology at first hand, a field trip, the Indian in life...