Word: loafers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spent. The campaign was directed almost entirely by the company's President George Washington Hill. Born of rich parents, Mr. Hill is regularly mentioned by Hearst Columnist Arthur Brisbane as one case where a rich man's son has not been a loafer. Silent, clever, he has originated many an advertising idea. Last year he saw a fat woman munching what he presumed to be either a sweet or a pickle while nearby was a slender girl smoking a cigaret. Thenceforth came a sales-slogan ("Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet") on which millions were spent...
...Louis from Kansas City, housewives who had known Henry Summers since he wore rompers looked at each other in amazement. "Why, that Summers boy! Do you mean to tell me-you mean to say that young-I always thought he was a-." On their lips they checked the word "loafer" sometimes applied to Henry Summers, who in St. Louis was often seen dallying in an alley. But success in an alley deserved no opprobrium. Henry Summers had won the singles championship of the American Bowling Congress...
...other with alarm and annoyance, for the air was full of strange noises. Whistles, sirens, funnels, horns, bells, squealers, filled the morning with a troublesome cacophony. Suddenly one bargee shook his fist: "It's that lazy bum Walker," the bargee said, "now he's back!" "Yes, the loafer," said the other bargee. Then both bargees moved into a shady place on the deck, for it was a hot September forenoon, and returned to somnolence...
...have no doubt but that items of news in the article are substantially correct, but your reference to "Jellybeans" is all wrong, and especially your explanation in the note. You define a jellybean as a heap this "Southern small opprobrium town upon the loafer." Why heap this opprobrium upon the South? We are as loyal to your publication as any portion of the country. Then again, why refer to a jellybean as a loafer? A jellybean is not necessarily a loafer, although he may be one. A jellybean is just another name for a cookie-pusher. Members of this species...
...Harvard-Princeton football break is the amount of dirt to be squeezed out of it. Already the athletic relations between the two universities have been made into a public scandal. They received the same treatment as the recent baseball crisis. They received the same attention from the street corner loafer, the same insane comments from people who never went to Harvard or Princeton, or any other college, whose interest in them, as it is in Charlie Chaplin, or Ban Johnson or Ty Cobb, is aroused by the unhealthy appetite for scandal and more scandal...