Word: gallon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia the spotlight centered on four rangy, good-natured University of Texas runners who advertised their State's Centennial celebration by staging their first practice session in ten-gallon hats, high-heeled boots, leather jackets. First day of the meet they changed to shorts and silk jerseys, trotted out to show spectators how they had smashed the world's record for the 880-yd. relay a fortnight before in Austin...
Before thirsty French voters had got well into their second gallon last week, every political party had turned enough tactical flip-flops to make a horsefly dizzy...
...natty checked suit, Alfred Emanuel Smith ascended to the observation platform of Manhattan's Empire State Building accepted a ten-gallon hat from beauteous Irene Caldwell, official hostess of the Texas Centennial Exposition. He gave her a brown derby for Texas' Governor James V. Allred, grabbed her nape, planted a resounding kiss on her cheek, offered to do it all over again for the photographers...
...What about the gallon of Bacardi you got last week?" asked a knowing member of the press as he examined the label on the expensive stogy. "Smiling Jim" merely smiled again and adroitly changed the subject by slapping a silver dollar on the table...
...niggers" were not particularly alarmed when the rivulets on the truck floor took fire from the burning paper. But this was not kerosene but gasoline. A lacework of flames raced across the truck floor. Several men stamped their feet in the burning trickles. Then suddenly the five-gallon can went up in flames. Twenty-two "bad niggers" rushed to the front of the truck, began to holler...