Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HUMPHREY...
...Readers Humphrey & Smith's contemporaries will not find their questions naïve. Once a fashionable word (about 1760) and used by boys behind the barn some 20 years ago, "hump" is seldom heard in a sexual sense today. In the magazine (For Men Only) that printed it (and was acquitted of obscenity by a New York City magistrate) the word was used as a noun meaning "prostitute": "I walked at night, asked every hump I passed if she knew a Louise...
Investigations of the radio industry and the FCC took a forward step during the week when the Senate Audit & Control Committee lifted Senator Wallace Humphrey White Jr.'s all-inclusive broadcasting investigation demand out of storage by earmarking $25,000 for the probe. And Texas' Representative William Doddridge McFarlane renewed in the House his ten-month-old demand for a radio monopoly investigation. He freshened up his act by charging that two unnamed former U. S. Senators had taken bribes. Mr. McFarlane wants to reopen an old antitrust suit against the Bell System and RCA and its subsidiaries...
...Field '40, R. B. Finn '39, R. S. Fogelman '40, R. F. French 1G, J. G. Gilkey, Jr. '39, H. B. Griswold '38, R. F. Hagerty '39, H. R. Harwood, Jr. '39, D. D. Henry '41, W. E. Hinchliff '40, H. P. Hoffstot, Jr. '39, R. Holder '40, J. Humphrey, Jr. '41, C. G. Hutter...
...Humphrey centers the first line, flanked by Dud Humphrey and Dave Boles; the defense features John Gibson and Doc Howe with towering George Seabury and Clem Kite as spares. Harry Holt, another sensational sophomore, will try to duplicate his fine performance in the nets. The second line has Paul Gillespie at center and Fred Burr and Ed Toland on the wings. Dave Rodd, Bill Barnes and Cy Vance make up the third line...