Word: junks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more easily translated morceaux choisis is a list of mourners whom the ex-President has requested to attend his funeral: "Jean, Millerand's son; the Unknown Soldier; Maman Canti [canti, name given to profiteering junk-dealers]; Mme. Vichère [composed of vie, life, chère, dear?high cost of living] ; l'Abbesse du Franc [Abbesse means abbess, but it is here a play on the English word abyss; hence, the abyss of the franc, an allusion to the franc's tremendous fall in the Spring (TIME, Mar. 17) when Millerand was President...
...Commander of the British Gunboat Cockchafer forced under threat of bombardment the highest military leaders in the Province of Szechwan to walk in full dress uniform behind the coffin of Edwin G. Hawley, a citizen of the U. S. who had been killed by Chinese junk men. They were likewise compelled to attend the burial service...
...going to let bones come in free, and Brazilian pebbles. Then, bristles, if they are crude, cuttlefish bone, dry insects, stems of vegetables and flowers?I don't understand how they escaped. Birds' eggs and fish eggs, free. Fish skins, fossils, dragon's blood. Horsehair, hoops, old junk. If it's new junk it can't come in free. I don't know whether you let loaded dice in free, but you are giving the American people loaded dice in this bill. And seaweed?that just drifts in. Nux vomica, rags, shavings, old paper, rope ends, old sausage casings...
...until very recently, however, the industry fell upon evil days. Operating costs were doubled or tripled, fares advanced little or not at all, competition with jitneys arose, and about a sixth of the industry went into the hands of receivers. Both track and equipment were sold for junk...
Dreiser Tells of Old Sam'l Clampitt's Junk-Yard, Etc. The Story. These 38 prose sketches of New York-the New York of Chuck Connors and the unsophisticated Bowery and the old-time bread-line-range odd corners of the city and exhume most curious figures from the dust of the first decade of the century. The Log of A Harbor Pilot describes the tossing existence of that strange race of minor vikings, veteran pinochlers all. The Michael J. Powers Association portrays the glad-hand life of a typical East Side boss-derby-hatted ruler over...