Word: garters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cellar of a house in Baltimore one day last week a tiny black spider dangled listlessly from its web, waiting for a stray fly. No fly appeared, but across the cold floor slithered a 12-inch garter snake, foraging for food. Forked tongue flashing, the snake darted into the sticky spider web, got caught, quickly found itself trapped. The householder discovered what was going on in his cellar, began to watch. All that day and all that night the snake wriggled and twisted. Into the cellar next day flocked neigh bors to see the battle. The snake flipped and flopped...
...twelve long years Northern Ireland has had the same Governor, vastly rich and mightily aristocratic Sir James Albert Edward Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn and Knight of the Garter. When he moved into frowning Hillsborough Castle, bought at a cost of $230,000 to serve as the Governor's residence, the magnificence of his personal chattels outshone its splendor. The plate and oil paintings alone were supposed to be worth more than the castle. One day last week the Duke and Duchess were on vacation in England and so was the Private Secretary, Commander Henderson. Belatedly Sergeant Irvine, head...
Decorously last week London bankers alluded to the days when Britain was really profligate-days when she had borrowed nothing from undiscovered America; days of glory when her conquering Edward III, founder of the gallant Order of the Garter, proclaimed himself King of France; days of shame when he beggared the Florentine bankers who had financed his victories by brazenly defaulting Britain's war debt in the year...
Knee cap of a sheep worn as a garter to prevent leg muscle cramps...
That cycle of naughty dramas which began with Twin Beds and lasted through Getting Gertie's Garter and Up In Mabel's Room proved a boon to Hugh O'Connell. He was the drunk who always went to bed in the wrong room. In this time-tested sequence, he proudly recalls one trick which never failed to convulse his audience. Slowly pulling off his pants he would fling them into the chandelier. ''After that," he says, ''I could just lay back and rest for about five minutes." The Racket (1927) and Gentlemen...