Word: hand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jalopy," "jaloppi" -or "jollopy" (Weseen's Dictionary of American Slang}-has for years been the name used by U. S. second-hand car dealers and taxi drivers for an exhausted automobile. Possible derivation: jalap, a purgative root...
TIME came along and now we have accurate and unbiased accounts of current events. We have come to believe in TIME Your description of the Coronation in the May 24 issue cannot be equaled. It is truthfully and dramatically written and I, as a British subject, will have to hand it to America for the briefest, yet most concise and exciting account of the Coronation. God save our TIME...
...Share Co.'s test of the Utility Holding Company Act, etc. For another 25 minutes the Justices sat while nearly 100 applicants for permission to practice before the Court were introduced, and sworn in in batches. Then the Court rose. Mr. Van Devanter stopped to shake the proud hand of a page boy. A year's work was done. The Justices of the Supreme Court disappeared between the curtains...
...last cases, has his fingers before his mouth. The Chief Justice fingers his snowy mustache. Conservative Justice McReynolds stares meditatively at the fine ceiling of the court room (not shown in the picture). Conservative Justice Sutherland lounges at one side of his chair. Liberal Justice Stone has his hand partly before his face. Liberal Justice Cardozo leans wearily upon one elbow...
Next morning, 14 years after he formed the first of his three Governments, 69-year-old Prime Minister Baldwin entered Buckingham Palace to hand over to King George the seals of his office. Forty-five minutes later plain Mr. Baldwin reappeared, and pulling blandly at a cherry-wood pipe, entered his car. Tucked under one arm were two framed, inscribed photographs of Their Majesties...