Word: holing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty-two million eggs, flounder eggs, traveled in a baggage car last week from Woods Hole, Mass., where the Government maintains a fish hatchery, to Jamaica Bay, L. I. There they were dumped into the coast waters to hatch and grow. In three years, the new flounders will be big enough to catch and eat. The ocean around New York Harbor is too filthy for flounders to breed naturally...
...Bull Moose party, but four years later was back in the Republican fold. On the fringe of the "Ohio gang," he was called to Washington by President Harding to draw up a tidy plan for reorganizing the government. Mr. Brown obeyed, diligently. His plan went into a pigeon hole and its author returned to Toledo...
Elated or dismayed, the Job-Seeker travels back to the lobby. This time he is approached and surrounded by the press, rising from benches, emerging from their cubby-hole quarters, flocking about to ply him with artful questions. He calls them "Boys" and, if wise, conceals all the President has said...
...gigantic resident of Rochester, N. Y., used to heave weights at the Hill School and at Yale. Two years ago he won the amateur golf championship of New York. He has been looking for another title ever since. Last week in Havana, taking care not to play the nineteenth hole at the wrong time, he slashed, bashed and putted well; became amateur golf champion of Cuba...
...difficult to shoot a hole in the accuracy of the statement made by Mr. H. B. ('Yes, Mr. Swope, Sir') Swope, who has leaped at a bound from journalism to cigaret indorsing. 'Whenever I am tempted to eat between meals,' his signed statement reads, 'I light up a Lucky.' Little did the American Tobacco Company know that in Mr. Swope's life there is no such time as between meals. Elementary, he doesn't have any meals. The former - and his bellowing of 'Tear up the contract!' therefore now makes...