Word: jousts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...looked last week as if Harvey Samuel Firestone had acquired a new spear for his running joust with the mail-order tire. To Harvey Firestone, an embattled individualist, all the woes of the rubber world are compressed in the cheap tires which his three big competitors - Goodyear, Goodrich and U. S. Rubber - manufacture but which the mail-order houses (and a few chainstores) sell under their own brand name (TIME, April 10). Harvey Firestone's spears in the past have been price-cuts and letters to his stockholders impaling his Akron neighbors. This time the spear-thrower...
...Davis and Mr. Litchfield until last fortnight. Then they agreed to drop the cheap lines they market under their own names, tried to coax Mr. Firestone into the scheme. Mr. Firestone would have none of it. It would be an admission of defeat in his long, long joust with the mail-order tire...
...dynast Robert Marion La Follette kept getting himself elected regularly as Governor or Senator. When he died in 1925, his son & namesake inherited his seat in the Senate, his power at home. Two years ago his younger son. Philip Fox La Follette, first charged into the State arena to joust Walter Jodok Kohler, stalwart Republican, out of the governorship. In last week's primaries Mr. Kohler, middle-aged manufacturer of plumbing fixtures ("Kohler of Kohler") won back the Republican gubernatorial nomination together with the distinction of being the first man to defeat a La Follette since...
...secred and muravyingly wisechairmanlooking. Now whim the sillybilly of a Gracehoper had jingled through a jungle of love and debts and jangled through a jumble of life in doubts afterworse, wetting with the bim-blebeaks, drikking with nautonects, bilking with durrydunglecks and horing after ladybirdies (ichnehmon diagelegenaitoikon) he fell joust as sieck as a sexton and tantoo pooveroo quant a churchprince, and wheer the midges to wend hemsylph or vosch to sirch for grub for his corapusse or to find a hospes. alick, he wist gnit...