Word: gal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grandsons purports to be the story, as told to Adamic himself, of three third-generation U. S.-Slovenes from Carniola. Peter Gale (whose immigrant grandfather was called Galé) shared a pup-tent with Adamic in the A. E. F. until he was wounded and gassed. Nine years after the War Adamic met Peter again, in Los Angeles. Peter was apparently a typical drifter, nervous, unsettled, unhappy, a newspaperman who never stayed in one place more than a few months. Gradually he got Peter's story out of him. Peter's brother, Andy, was the "front...
...Montana, a stump-puller on which duty had not been paid. Alcohol Tax agents, most of whom have worked without pay since Dec. because of a patronage-greedy deficiency bill amendment wangled by Tennessee's Senator Kenneth McKellar, had seized 900 stills, 119 automobiles and 40,204 gal. of bootleg liquor, made 1,583 arrests. Coast Guard cutters were trailing six rum-running ships. Enough evidence had been gathered to hold more than 500 big-time criminals for income tax evasion. Only one Federal agent, in Leesville, Va., had been seriously wounded. Only one "leak" had been discovered...
...exchange contracts was mid-continent crude of 36 gravity which has been quoted at $1 per bbl. since September 1933. Sales for the first day were 14,000 bbl. at from $1.18 for July delivery to $1.25 for June delivery. Gasoline sold at from 5.78? to 5.98? per gal. Trading in oil and gasoline brought the number of commodities bought & sold on U. S. Exchanges to 33. The others: wheat, corn, rye. oats, sugar, coffee, cotton, silk, rubber, hides, butter, eggs, copper, zinc, tin, lead, rice, barley, lard, ribs, provisions, potatoes, cotton seed, flour, hay, flaxseed, millseeds, cocoa, wool, tops...
...passengers aboard, the Colonial Line steamship Lexington (New York-Providence) sighted the freighter Jane Christenson dead ahead, shrilled a warning. Before the Lexington could get out from under the freighter knifed her amidships, nearly broke her in half. While the ship's orchestra played "Somebody Stole My Gal," passengers waded across decks knee-deep in water. Tooting furiously, harbor tugs bustled to the Lexington's side, took off passengers & crew almost before they knew it. The Lexington sank in ten minutes, took four seamen with...
...game is bagatelle (also known as sans égal, Mississippi, cockamaroo, contact with variations. The player drops a coin in the slot which releases a plunger. With the plunger he drives a ball down crooked alleyways of pins until it scores by dropping into one of many holes in the board. For his total score he receives a certain number of coupons exchangeable for merchandise. The average player, of course, spends much more accumulating sufficient points to win, say, a $25 radio than he would if he went out and bought the instrument for cash. Smart players...