Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House with 500 recently soaked notables. It was not the hour and a half spent in the reviewing stand-an $11,000 model of Andrew Jackson's home The Hermitage erected before the White House, where the President stood exposed in a sort of showcase whose bullet-proof glass windows he had removed, the better to be seen and rained on, while he reviewed a parade of 32 Governors in closed cars,* of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Cadets, Middies, CCC andT NYA sloshing through the deluge. Nor was it the mad tea afterwards when...
Warm, like-minded friends are Virginia's junior Senator and its senior Senator, Carter Glass. But one day in 1928 a Texas businessman-admirer of Statesman Glass visited Harvard's Business School, found no portrait of its namesake in the School's Glass Hall, promptly had one painted. Soon afterward the two men met, and ever since Carter Glass and Jesse Jones have been the stanchest of friends, the warmest of mutual admirers. Senator Glass calls Chairman Jones the ablest administrator in Washington. First of this month he moved from Washington's Raleigh Hotel, where...
...would be against the bill, said Senator Glass, if he thought it would waste "one single dollar." He did not, and he wanted RFC extension. He wanted it chiefly, he frankly proclaimed, because Jesse Jones was RFC's chairman...
...Indianapolis, Jerry W. Flanders, 24, hired a soloist to sing Gloomy Sunday at his funeral, was arrested in a downtown saloon just as he was about to drink a glass of poisoned beer...
...Since U. S. Courts began to take the fun out of this form of gambling, U. S. manufacturers have been busy taking the gambling out of this form of fun. In the last three years they have made 5? bagatelle a national craze, filled the land with glass enclosed, pin-studded playing fields for plunger-driven, hovering little balls. At last week's convention the term "slot machine" was banned.* Taking their cue from the degrees of interest shown by the public in their exhibits, the coin machine manufacturers last week foresaw the passing of Bagatelle, increasing popularity...