Word: lock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saturday night when the jury of business and professional men retired to consider the case. Rather than lock up the jurymen, Justice McCook went to sleep in his chambers. Lucania and his friends lay down in their cells. Their wives went home. Just after 5 the next morning the judge was roused from his sleep. Lucania & friends shuffled into court in wrinkled clothes. Prosecutor Dewey, on the other hand, bounced in with a fresh shave...
...France last month's Popular Front election victory was followed last week, in precisely the same pattern, by Left-wing direct action, designed to compromise Socialist Leon Blum on the eve of his premiership. In France it took the form of an epidemic of "folded arms" strikes or "lock-ins" in munitions, airplane and automobile factories...
...Roosevelt entertained on the South Lawn after the President departed on his week end yachting trip on the Potomac on the Potomac. Fortnight ago Mrs. Roosevelt, in her syndicated newspaper column, told of her visit to the National Training School for Girls, the District of Columbia's lock-up for female delinquents. Dr. Carrie Weaver Smith, new superintendent who recently induced Congress to appropriate $100,000 for the School, also induced Mrs. Roosevelt to visit it. In My Day, the First Lady wrote...
When Mr. Taylor first came to the University, "the" telephone was installed in an empty office in the basement of University Hall, carefully kept under lock and little used key to safeguard against idle curiosity. A chosen few were permitted access to the contraption, but even they could find little use for it except in ordering supplies from the more progressive Boston firms then connected. With more use, the locality of the phone was changed to a closet upstairs, accompanied by its lock and key. Finally, is science marched on, the University had three instruments installed on the party line...
...trains on raw meat, spends his spare time weaving blankets, fashioning bracelets and necklaces. Considered the Beau Brummell of the wrestling world, he sports huge sombreros, checked suits, fancy vests, embroidered boots. If his specialty, the Navajo war whoop, fails to prostrate his opponent, he employs the Indian Death Lock, a crushing leg hold...