Word: junking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Born Yesterday" begins and ends in the comfortable Washington apartment of Harry Brock, junk-dealer grown plump through sleight-of-hand in the war surplus bonanza. Against a backdrop of dignitaries come to sell their souls for a cut in Harry's ill-gotten gains, Billie--once a chorine in "Anything Goes"--alternately flits and slinks. Her Flatbush lingo leaves the wives of senators non-plussed; journalist Paul Verrill is assigned to "teach her a few things...
...biggest flop was the Kansas City machine. Scrapped for junk after Uncle Tom Pendergast went to jail in 1941, the steamroller had been repaired by Nephew Jim. It looked good for a while last summer, but last week, the voters overturned it. It not only failed to elect Harry Truman's Enos Axtell, it lost its two best patronage jobs, including the presiding judgeship of the County Court (in which Harry Truman had begun his rise...
...surveyed his full dresser drawers and then his suitcase. He wondered where he was going to put all this stuff. How did he ever get it up three flights? The amount of junk a guy can accumulate...
...never made it. With a tearing crash the plane ripped into the Boeshores' wheat stubble. It skidded a full 1,000 feet across the road, plowed into another wheat field and crashed into flaming junk...
Then Mary got married, and set up school in 1904 in Daytona Beach, Fla. "on $1.50 and faith." Her first pupils were five little girls and her son. They used charcoal for pencils, mashed elderberries to make ink. The curriculum included manual training; her pupils repaired junk-pile furniture so they would have something...