Word: knob
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called it Appareil Chance, patented it in all countries where gambling is legal. Housed in a rectangular box only seven and one-half inches long, the device works something like a combination typewriter and adding machine. When a number turns up on the roulette wheel, the operator spins a knob on the machine to that number. This rotates into position a drum of type carrying all of the number's group affiliations. Then a lever is pressed and the data are printed on a roll of paper, visible beneath a mica window...
...Custer County. Idaho, the ghost town of White Knob, once "the premier lead, copper, and silver camp of the West" was offered for sale to make up delinquent taxes. In 1915 it was sold for $440,000. In 1928 it was sold for $150,000. Last week there were no bidders for White Knob...
...reviewer last week approved a Mickey Mouse as follows: "Mickey Mouse can teach children because he has a child's point of view. Both a mouse and a child must look up at a door knob, and both see other things from similar perspectives...
Empire and world interest focused last week on a tiny old man with a knob of a head, thin greying hair and gold-rimmed spectacles. This was the mysterious "intervener" in the divorce case of Mrs. Simpson. It was he who alone seized and exercised a right possessed by every British subject after a decree nisi of divorce has been granted in the Kingdom, namely the right at any time in the following six months to tip off the King's Proctor that there is something fishy about the case and demand that the Attorney General reopen it with...
Simpson holy deadlocked, and on Dec. 10 His Majesty decided to abdicate. On Dec. 14 the knob-headed little intervener moved to withdraw his intervention. He was in court last week to explain his series of actions - so suggestive of a successful effort to bamboozle an overwrought man in love, especially since knob-head Stephenson plies the trade of managing clerk in a firm of London lawyers whose important clients unquestionably sided with the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin...