Word: looping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Leather-faced journalists in the antique city-room of the Chicago Daily News eyed one another: "How much longer do we work for the Congregational Church?" A few blocks down the Loop, John J. Mitchell, able Chicago banker had been spending a large part of his working days for two months deciding how best to rid himself of one of the greatest evening newspapers in the world. To the leather-faces and to himself Banker Mitchell said Merry Christmas as follows...
...second round. Throughout the first, Rocky (a hairy 133-pound bullyboy, battered and be-cauliflowered by innumerable brawls) had come plunging in at a pace that would surely be impossible for him to keep up for 15 rounds. Goodrich waited his chance. Kansas was standing off to loop a left to the head, when he sent across his sock. Wham! With all the leverage of his springy body behind it, his right fist encountered the other's jaw. Rocky did not waver. Oof! Again the big right-hand sock. Rocky came tearing in. ... He was flogging Goodrich...
...trying to formulate a plan whereby hiking may be put on the same basis as the other elective sports open to Freshmen, without making it merely a loop-hole for those men who are try to side-step the requirement explained Dr. Worcester to the CRIMSON. "There are a good many men who seem to show no interest in regularly organized sports, and a considerable number who are physically unable to take part in them. It is for these men that we are providing opportunity for hiking...
...modern possibilities disclosed by the Harverford senior's intrigue. Perhaps at the next commencement, the president of his alma mater, dreading to be the cynosure of all eyes, may peek in attired as a goody, while he confers by proxy upon the perturbed candidates their various degrees. The loop-hole of escape may even be adopted in higher circles. The President of the United States in subsequent inaugurations may take his oath of office "in absentia," 'while he attends the function as a girl scout. Surely the harassed Haverford gentleman has opened alternatives to admiring attention, which can only result...
...night-club table; instruments fall silent behind piano figurations for a chorus-rehearsal of skeletons with a solo ghoul in a buck-and-wing dip, while the first cat that was ever killed by Care shrinks in affright from the hard, slit eyes, the waiting jowls of Broadway, the Loop, the Barbary Coast. Said Critic Carl Van Vechten...