Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that time Paul McNutt was sitting down to a 2,000-place banquet at Indianapolis, where Jack Dolan of Indiana's Democratic Editorial Association and Governor Clifford Townsend garlanded him with effusive laurel wreaths of oratory. Several days later silver-haired Mr. McNutt was in Washington, for an even more stunning event. To Washington, accustomed as it is to flamboyant entertaining, the banquet given Paul McNutt at the Mayflower Hotel was sensational...
...missing. Other interesting pensioners: an aged Negro who lived on a county line, had changed his name to draw pensions in both counties; the mother of a $14,000-a-year major league baseballer; a woman at whose home the investigator had been received by a butler. Snorted Representative Jack Nichols of Eufaula: "I didn't know there was a butler in Oklahoma...
...came directly from the Secret Political Police. They announced they were putting on trial this week 21 Communists, most of whom have held official positions close to Joseph Stalin, big shots of Stalin's own party and inner clique. In equivalent U. S. terms. Defendant Rykov would be Jack Garner; Defendant Grinko-Secretary Morgenthau; Defendant Yagoda-Attorney General Cummings; Defendant Chernov- Secretary Wallace; Defendant Khodjaiev -Governor Lehman; Defendant Rakovsky-Ambassador Bullitt; Defendant Bukharin-Hugh Johnson; Defendant Levin -Dr. Alexis Carrel. "Terrific!" was Walter Duranty's adjective after studying the official charges against the 21. Correspondent Joseph Barnes remarked...
Into a jam is precisely where Stagehand got. With able Jockey Jack Westrope up, he was twelfth at the start, eleventh at the half-mile post, still in the ruck coming into the stretch. But the wiseacres had not counted on Stagehand's fine sense of drama. In time's nick, like the hero of a Wild West thriller, Stagehand lengthened out, swept wide around the pack, past Sun Egret, past Dauber, won by half a length...
...people with weak hearts, welcomed a card game in which a one-suit hand was impossible. Other card players found the possibilities of the new deck intriguing. To the poker crowd, for example, it opened bright vistas of more easily filled straights, green flushes, and a new one-eyed jack for the wild games...