Word: keeping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weighs 50 pounds and the shackles are fastened almost rigidly by bending them over the bar with a hammer. The weight is so great that those who wear the device attach a rope to both ends of the bar to keep it off the ground when shuffling inch by inch across the floor. If no rope is available a tobacco box or little block of wood may be placed under it in the center to do service as a caster...
...titles. But there is no record of a peer-author's wife refusing to become a Lady. U. S. observers compared Mrs. Webb's renunciation to the self-effacement of Mrs. Alfred Emanuel Smith of the U. S. Friends said that one of her motives was to keep visible the famed name of Webb. Friends also said that modest Mr. Webb's acceptance of his title was his second sacrifice of the month for the Labor Party. Because his attainments made it a necessity that he be a member of the new MacDonald Cabinet, he relinquished...
...Pocantico Hills, N. Y., is an estate called "Kijkuit" (Dutch for "Keep Out"). There, in the summertime, behind stone walls, barbed wire and grilled iron, lives the Richest Man. Thither he returned last week from Lakewood, N. J., his annual intermediate stop between the North and Florida. The bed from which he rises at 7 is crumbless, for at "Kijkuit" no one may breakfast abed. At 7:30 the Master leaves his bath. On the scales he finds he weighs less than 100 lbs. In the mirror he sees pale, blue eyes, pointed chin, sunken cheeks, large head, hairless skin...
Along the right of way of the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton R. R. grows many a carefully-tended flower bed. The crossing watchmen must keep their little shacks trim and orderly, the engineers must carry repair kits and act as veterinaries for minor ailments of their Iron Horses. But all D. T. & I. employes are happy to do extra chores for they are paid above the standard railway scale...
...Manhattan last week as a director of National Surety Co., a position which he held for two years prior to 1922. He wandered about inquiringly, said: "I'm looking for the cigars. I won't be a director in any company where they don't keep the cigars on the table...