Word: jam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ceremony when Judge Joseph Buffington, at 81 the oldest man on the Federal bench, inducted Youngster Biggs. The affair could not have been more amiable. In the first place Judge Buffington is no gaffer. He still keeps a medicine ball in his chambers which he delights to jam into the abdomens of elderly colleagues. He was married to his third wife only six years ago and still likes to go occasionally to a night club. Moreover, he remembers that he also got his start in politics at a convention-the Republican Convention of 1880, where he cast 36 successive votes...
...Even their slang-in which a policeman is a "rozzer," a pal is addressed as "china"- is more quaint than sinister. Thus the great million-dollar fur robbery which climaxes Dr. Clitterhouse's efficient operations is likely to remind U. S. spectators of a schoolboy raid on the jam closet. Somehow that does not impair the show's excitement...
...amount of interest it arouses in the College. AT present there is only one winter major sport--hockey--and its popularity is unquestioned in New England. During the past two years however, there has been a phenomenal growth in another sport--basketball. Tonight over two thousand people jam the stands to watch the game with Yale, tonight Harvard basketball will conclude its most successful season...
...well-dressed fellow, and from the puzzled expressions of the two it was clear that the location of some back street was uncertain in their minds. As we passed beneath the symbol of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts a fragment of the conversation slipped between the horns of the traffic jam. The officer and not the merchant was the questioner...
Privately all agents agree London will be so jam-squeezed that even Ambassadors in Government cars will have to arise at dawn before the Coronation and reach the Abbey by 7 a. m. at the latest. Millions of Britons will stand, sit, slump and sleep on curbstones not only the whole previous night but in all probability the night before that. Ten thousand tourists will sleep in ships on the Thames...