Word: hob
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...economy alone had prompted the dismissal of the three professors. The proposed athletic plant would have to wait upon other more pressing needs. As for the dress rules, he said he had merely suggested, six years ago, that his students might wear something more refined than lumberjack shirts and hob nailed boots...
...such announcements were made. But the Yale "House Plan'' which many think may play hob with traditional Yale institutions, was brought up once more (it was outlined for the first time on Alumni Day last year; TIME, March 3, 1930) and amplified in speeches by President James Rowland Angell and Professor Robert Dudley French...
Innkeeper Malandrini, Lawyer Belotti or dour Priest Don Taddeo. The whole town turned itself into a fiesta, mass meeting, audience, riot. Chorus-girls were billeted everywhere; their sleepless generosity played hob with respectable burghers, set a fad that was followed even by hitherto respectable housewives...
...Grannich laughed hysterically, was too overcome to speak in English, shouted: "Ich hob aruntergenummen die shich jar alle menschen?" (I removed my shoes in front of all the people...
...education a hoary, spiritual aspect, neo-Gothic has only lately been used by radically-minded undergraduates as an issue through which an entire cultural system can be criticized. Last week, in the second issue of a new insurgent undergraduate magazine, The Harkness Hoot, some of Yale's youngsters played hob with copyist architecture, drew a distinction between Harkness & Light. Offered as "Yale's Only Attempt at a Living Art" was a photograph of some scaffolding which was used to remove books from the old library...