Word: jammed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Observers, cogitating the news from Bar-le-Duc last week, deemed the speech of Premier Poincaré as surely and sweetly blended as Confiture de Bar-le-Duc, famed immemorial jam, exported hugely from the town to mingle on crackers with the cheeses of the world...
...persistent attention to duty and in no small part to taking no back talk from motorists. I stand up here and scowl at 'em and the best of 'em go by in silence." Just then he became aware of violent horn tooting, and blowing his whistle released the jam which had developed during the conversation. Amid stately sweeps of the hand the cars sped past leaving the isolated bluecoat marooned on his roost...
...president of the United States does not have such a bad time. In has a secretary to write his thanks for the gifts his loving constituents pour in upon him--the first jam from God's cranberry bog, wolf cubs, apple pie, sombreros. His parental cares are lightened by a secret service man who follows his undergraduate son from class to class and within the past few months the "official spokesman" has relieved the president of another responsibility. But he still has to shake hands, and he does it well. Last week he disposed of 1400 lady Republicans in forty...
...Texas, inspired by his California colleagues, an Associated Press correspondent telegraphed: "Bullfrogs migrating from one swamp to another caused a traffic jam on a highway near Houston . . . almost impossible to get through...
...went to see the Dean about the reason for the jam...