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Word: holsters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...curious. Wishing to see how fire boxes work, he pulled in a false alarm. As the hose truck of Engine Co. No. 73 sped toward the non-existent fire, an automobile drove across its path. Swerving to avoid collision, the hose truck crashed into an "L" pillar. Fireman Henry Holster, father of four children, was killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Apr. 25, 1927 | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...Breaking Point. Mrs. Mary Roberts Rinehart is responsible for this example of the cowhide drama. Out of her holster of dramatic tricks she has drawn a sheriff, a self-sacrificing female with crimson propensities, a leading man with amnesia. Her action takes off in the East and lands on a ranch. It is all naively melodramatic, thoroughly preposterous, terribly exciting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Aug. 27, 1923 | 8/27/1923 | See Source »

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