Word: hammered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distracted from this interesting question for a time by the coincidence that Princess Therese Aga Khan, wife of the Aga Khan III, died in a Paris hospital almost at the moment when her husband was bidding at Christie's. But why did the "Golden Dawn" go under the hammer at only ?4,950 ($24,057)? The price of diamonds has long been relative not to their actual rarity but to the artificial scarcity created by the South African Diamond Trust, often cited by economists as a favorite example of the "perfect monopoly...
Score--Harvard 13, Yale 0. Touchdowns--Heard, Van Rensselaer. Goal from touchdown--Heard. Referee--Joseph Pendleton, Bowdoin. Umpire--J. H. Crowley, Boston. Field Judge--Oswald Tower, Andover. Linesman M. W. Sonders, Milton. HARVARD 1928 YALE 1929 Hammer, Dearborn l.e. r.e. Lyman, Jackson Hemminger, Wilson l.t. r.t. Springer Cushing, Turney l.g. r.g. Blaser, MacDonald Fox, Hodges c. c. Huggins, Smith Adams r.g. l.g. Poor Henman r.t. l.t. G. Smith Allen, Lomasney r.e. l.e. Watson, Folger Heard, q.b. q.b. Lashnitz, Fearing Barbee l.h.b. r.h.b. Fearing., Phillips Van Rensselaer, Ellis r.h.b. l.h.b; Carson Mulliken, Long f.b. f.b. Hoffman
President John Goefield of the United Association of Plumbers and Steamfitters heated a rivet into a glowing thing of beauty. Frank Morrison, Secretary of the A. F. of L., passed it to some workmen. William Green, President of the A. F. of L., picked up a riveting hammer, sank the glowing thing into the keel of what is to be the 10,000-ton Pensacola, first of the U. S. "treaty cruisers." Thus organized labor demonstrated that it knew Oct. 27 was Navy Day, and not merely the opening of Apple Week. The host, Admiral Charles P. Plunkett, Commandant...
...summary follows: JUNIORS. SOPHOMORES. Allen, l.e. r.e., Fuller, Sexton Mulford, l.t. r.t., Pickard Adams, l.g. l.g., Williams, Kane, Brookfield, Sweezy Tuney, Fox, c. c., Shapiro, Weller Cushing, Tuney, r.g. l.g., Ingalls Hemminger, r.t. l.t., Norris Hammer, r.e. l.e., Weiler Heard, q. b. q.b., Morris, Sawyer Sawyer, l.h.b. r.h.b., Whiting, Lefrak Van Renssalaer, r.h.b. l.h.b., Weymouth, Kalanis Barbee, f.b. f.b., Wise, Brine...
This steelyeyed, iron-jawed playboy of the Senate, this Voltaire-tongued bastinado of the uplifters, this Rabelais-reading Jeffersonian -this James A. Reed of Missouri-what a sizzling presidential campaign he would hammer out! From stump to stump across the land, he would blast the imbecilities of the age. Sometimes his tongue would snarl, sometimes it would ripple with a silvery metaphor; then people would know why the Senate galleries were filled when "Jim" Reed spoke...