Word: hipped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cached bottles of nocturnal sunshine bearing flashy labels and burnt corks were unearthed recently at the sumptuous clubhouse of many national fraternities in New York Consternation reigned when snooping agents who had walked in a side entrance tried to act collegiate, and quietly patted hip pockets of the Greeks as they dined...
...Messrs. Cooper, McReynolds, Carson, Atwater and some 300 other patrons were dancing, two dozen U. S. agents fell upon their tables, plucked at hip flasks and pint bottles, set the place into an uproar. Women shrieked and fainted. One tore the sleeve out of her escort's coat trying to drag him to safety. Arrested were eleven patrons on the charge of liquor possession (a misdemeanor under the Volstead Act), 16 employes charged with providing "set-ups." Through a hooting, jeering Broadway crowd, the 27 men were taken to the police station, later held in $500 or more bail...
Never before in Manhattan had the U. S. pestered the "little fellow," the "hip flask toter." In Chicago and other cities this strategy has been used sporadically against night clubs. Declared New York's Prohibition Administrator Maurice Campbell after the Hollywood raid: "This is the first instance-but if the practice is not discontinued it will not be the last." Prohibition Commissioner Doran in Washington denied that any new national policy was involved. Purpose: to see if New Yorkers could be convicted for public drinking...
Zebit was ready for them. Twenty thousand loyal, fuzzy-headed, yelling soldiers under Minister of War Degiac Mulugheta smote the howling rebels hip and thigh, routed them, slew their leader, the Imperial Consort Ras Gugas Wali...
...Rangers won in the third-place playoff. Ching Johnson, big, bald, hooknosed, hip-swinging defense man of the Rangers, played with a grotesque aluminum protector strapped around his broken jaw. Frank Boucher, star centre, wore a cast of tape and bandage around ligaments he had torn away from his left collarbone shortly before the series. They came from behind in the third period of the deciding game with Ottawa, scored three times in three minutes, won at 5 to 2. Howie Morenz of the Canadiens, the fastest skater in hockey, his round, heavy shoulders hunched toward his stick, his strong...