Word: jam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sight that might make any monarch quail last week faced Denmark's tall, saturnine King Christian X. The great, eight-sided courtyard of Amalienborg Palace was jam-packed with strapping, irate Danish farmers in the grip of a grievance. The King, as he peered from his palace, noted on some brawny arms the swastika band of the Danish Nazis, on others the hammer & sickle of Communism (see p. 18). The mob had gathered from the eastern Danish islands, where little farms are thickest, to demand that Premier Theodore Stauning lower farm taxes, raise farm prices, declare a farm mortgage...
...nearly perfect sample of self-made middle-class Englishman is Harold Keates Hales, M. P. Short, red-faced, hearty, with a good opinion of his own wits, an honest satisfaction with his eccentricities, he wears a stand-up "jam pot" collar and claims to be the only automobile driver in the world who has never once blown his horn. The energy piled up by this repression Mr. Hales has variously discharged by flying an airship around St. Paul's Cathedral (1908), achieving one of the first airplane crashes (1910), pushing and plodding ahead in the china and exporting businesses...
...Paris, M. Cedard supplied a royal garden party tea menu with characteristic corrections in Her Majesty's own hand. She struck off jam, thus making a double saving, since the omission greatly reduced her guests' appetite for bread & butter. Another saving Her Majesty shrewdly made possible by decreeing that ices should be served only if the afternoon proved extremely hot. Finally, though the Royal Family's own edibles are provided from the kitchens of Chef Cedard, their tea guests are fed by Lyons, cheapest London chain-store caterers...
...June 28 the brothers got caught in a thunderstorm, fought it out for two hours, broke a stabilizer brace wire. Ole Miss droned on. Next day Ole Miss got into a serious jam when a radio short circuit set the instrument board afire. Al shut off the motor, put out the fire in three minutes with a hand extinguisher. Red-eyed and unshaven, aching all over, the brothers were stained with grease and carbon. Al, 28, had lost 20 Ib. Fred, 25, had gained ten. By this time all Mississippi was basking in their achievement, and Governor Conner made them...
Morgan and his son, Henry Sturgis Morgan, sat on the stand to watch Mrs. Henry Sturgis Morgan christen the new 10,000 ton cruiser Quincy. While the band brayed, airplanes zoomed, crowds cheered, flags waved, schoolchildren sang, a U. S. deputy marshal elbowed his way through the jam and up on the stand, to serve writs in a mysterious $500,000 action against Mr. Morgan...