Word: lined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American interruption of her communications with the Asiatic mainland, can now envisage a connection with [Britain & France] which she was indisposed to make so long as Siberia was open to attack." >President Roy A. Cheney of the Underwear Institute announced in Philadelphia: "The underwear industry is prepared and in line in case of war. Several million shirts and drawers would be needed. . . . We will have the same prosperity...
Although the strike was instigated by Harvard men, the co-eds were easily whipped into line with the result that representatives from both colleges are now serving on the picket line...
Wellesley leads the co-ed picket line with six women in active service. On being questioned, one of the more attractive members of the female contingent charged that "the poor cabbles are ever-burdened with the transportation of Harvard drunks. Something must be done to improve the lot of these poor, set-chauffeuring individuals, and I feel it is up to us Wellesley girls to take the first step in remedying this unconstitutional situation...
...line of treatment employed by Walter Millis in "The Martial Spirit" was the first definite attempt to relegate the Spanish-American War to the status of a slap-stick melodrama, and this attempt has proved quite successful. Likewise, Mr. Gregory Mason's account of the War has many more characteristics in common with the Gilbert and Sullivan type of opera than with an armed conflict. He has seconded Millis' motion on the subject by treating the 1898 embroilment as a schoolboy's scuffle. But, like many second-the-motions, "Remember the Maine" is at best only a weak reiteration...
...Profoundly middle class," he states, "the West, in which I include the twenty four states north of the Mason-Dixon Line between Pittsburgh and the Pacific, are basically one, and, opposed to both the East and the South, are the strongest single force in the Senate...