Word: frankenstein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born. To Cinemactor Boris Karloff (in Frankenstein, the Monster; in real life, Charles Edward Pratt), 51, and his wife: a daughter, their first child; in Hollywood...
...Congress in appropriating for the relief of the underprivileged never intended that those funds should be utilized to slaughter a member of this body. . . . Has the Congress builded a Frankenstein over which it has no control?* Is this a robot which is to trample roughshod over its creators, just because one of the cogs or buttons that animate it does not like the color of a Senator's hair...
From the corner curb to the stairway via Rout 1, the student takes 17 full seconds. But, employing the illegal Routue 2, he does it in 10 flat. Seven seconds, then, are wasted because of the grass plot, an architectural Frankenstein! And even if the illicit route is taken, a hedge and a tree block speedy entrance to class...
...says the monitor. Why hurry, replies the sage. And he is quite right, no need to hurry if you don't want to. And if in the outcome one looks like Frankenstein, perhaps one has become Frankenstein with his procrastination...
...concerned since they hire almost all their seamen on the cheaper Atlantic. Deep-sea Pacific shippers still were obliged to consider all maritime unions. With this schism in sight, Harry Bridges would have preferred delaying strike action. But the Maritime Federation he had so carefully built up proved his Frankenstein. Standing to gain nothing by a compromise between coastwise shippers and Pacific longshoremen, the other unions in the Federation demanded a strike. They were led in this by the strong Sailors' Union of the Pacific, headed by loose-mouthed, hulking Harry Lundeberg who would like to steal Bridges...