Word: itches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noble congress did not itch...
Meantime Toronto, with a native itch for the long shot and a grandstand view of Ontario's vast mineral resources, captured Canada's relatively young mining industry. As far back as the century's turn when the big strikes were still in the West, Toronto's interest in mining was so hot that not one but two mining stock exchanges were founded. Later they merged as the Standard Stock & Mining Exchange, long a rival of the conservative old Toronto Stock Exchange, which dates back to 1852. With development of the great Ontario mines around Cobalt, Sudbury...
...years old is a sensation, and doughty irreconcilables like the Smithsonian Institution's Ales Hrdlicka stand ready to assail with sledgehammer blows the validity of even that recent dating. "It is to the everlasting credit of professional American anthropology that it has not succumbed to the itch for ancestors by giving recognition to the many dubious and spurious finds whose claims have too often received a facile acceptance abroad. No one can deny that this salutary state of affairs is due almost entirely to the righteous scientific iconoclasm of one formidable veteran, Dr. Hrdlicka. The unhappy but deserved fate...
...peculiar appeal to people with an itch for quick money has the stock of Atlas Tack Corp., a little Fairhaven, Mass, concern whose volatile shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Four years ago, by high-powered manipulation which attracted the attention of New York's Attorney General and later drew Federal mail fraud indictments. Atlas Tack was crow-barred from about $2 to $28 per share in less than a twelvemonth. That rousing performance was almost duplicated in 1935, the stock rising in less than four months from around $9 to above $30 per share...
Comedian. John Rorke, having eased his itch, was overwhelmed with a sense of having probably lost his B. B. C. job, and with remorse. Distractedly he said he had meant to shout "YES, MRS. GIBSON!" although that was also no part of the script. "It was a slip of the tongue," he moaned inconsolably. "I would not say anything out of place about any living being, my former King or a peasant...