Word: hayloft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hurlic, the junior G-men throw their efforts on the side of the law. As dramaturgy, the device of having Bank-robber Hanson (Craig Reynolds; and associates take refuge in the barn which is G-man headquarters, may smack of the coincidental; as fantasy, it blends properly with the hayloft fantasies of the Penrod age. Helped by the local constabulary, the kids round up the yeggs. Blackamoor Verman finds a new home, Penrod's dad makes peace with Banker Bitts. Billy Mauch is the boy who played the young Anthony Adverse. He has an equally talented twin, Bobby Mauch...
...White House with his revised Senate bill. Before the Senate silverites had cast an amazing total of 33 ayes for inflation of the coinage of silver, Senator Thomas had sent his perfected measure to President Roosevelt. It was a four-lined pitchfork with which to heave prices into the hayloft. A covering letter accompanied the bill. In this letter Thomas suggested that the President should adopt the program and take the power for the clubbing effect it might have in the June economic conference. When the heirs of Bryan disclosed their gain of 15 votes in three months, John Garner...
...Detroit hayloft one morning last week, "Floyd's Club" met in special, solemn session. The members, all newsboys, heard one of their younger brothers, Longin Jendzyenski, 11, tell how he had been beaten up by Joe Przystas, 15, another newsboy but not a Floyd's Clubber. With Longin as their guide, a delegation of three members-Stanley Orlenski, 14, Joe Sawicki, 14, and Anthony Mazur, 14-set out for vengeance. They found Joe Przystas at home carrying a scuttle of coal upstairs. Stanley drew a rifle from his trouser leg, fired at the coal scuttle to frighten...
...essential violator of Prohibition, the person who uses alcoholic beverages. . . . There are millions of him throughout the land. Whether he serves wine to his dinner guests, whether he brews and drinks a makeshift beer, whether he keeps a jug of corn or apple in his oat bin or hayloft, he instinctively feels he is within his personal and private rights and it's nobody's business. . . . Drop shams and subterfuges and declare the user of alcoholic beverages the criminal and turn loose your enforcement forces against...