Word: jammed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...TIME, June 22, Page 2, gave four ways to decrease the rapidly growing cost of $1 bills, but omitted the most desirable. The chief wear on bills is from crumpling them up in pockets and wallets. Very few carry big wallets that will take bills flat. Women wad and jam them into their tiny purses. Most men and boys merely stuff them in pockets where they are quickly worn out. Expert studies for 50 years have proved that cards or slips can be handled much faster if about the standard international card catalog size; 7.5 x 12.5 cm. (just under...
Many a reader of current newspapers has wondered at the sudden frenzy of publishers to jam "all of Shakespeare in one volume" at prices ranging from "only $2.98" to "only $5.49". After assuring you that this is the one book you have lain awake nights wishing for, the chatty publisher takes you by the lapel and babbles away just like a friendly real estate agent...
...Turnbull, whose querulous existence up to that point had been in potting jam and waiting for her husband to speak at table, was deprived of her jam-pots and suffered to board at her doctor-son's house. The curate-son, with his rich wife and her pet lemur, got the Shelton living...
...reclined, there came a telephone message to say that the Senate had sent out a call for a quorum. Mr. Dawes donned his clothes, went downstairs. He summoned a taxicab. The taxi was delayed in a traffic jam. It took eight minutes to reach the Capitol...
...Peake, sprite of poverty, married Pervus De Jong, Illinois potato man. No amount of grubbing could deaden Selina. After years of it, she could still stick radishes behind her ear and dance for Dirk, her boy, only "so big." Dirk grew up and trailed off into a dull love-jam involving a nice girl and a naughtyish one. Also, Selina, old and bent, peddled her potatoes on Prairie Avenue, Chicago...