Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soused His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, the youngest son of Queen Mary, who was nicknamed by playfellows at school as "The Scent Bottle." In last week's unreeling of an Empire crisis, sleek, scented Kent was most of the time an orchidaceous extra waiting on the lot while British bigwigs performed the stellar roles in Edvardus Rex. Scenes from this cinema of official facts and carefully checked dispatches...
...scamper for the Baldwin bandwagon. "I was for the King when it was purely a question whether he should be permitted to marry whomsoever he should choose," says beetling-browed Labor Radical James Maxton, "but when it is a dispute between him and the Government, I cast my lot with the Government...
...proof of the longview value of a six-day rider's lot is the fact that in the professionsons often follow in their fathers' wheel-marks. Jimmy Walthour and his Cousin Bobby are sons of turn-of-the-Century bicycle racers...
...pestered by urchins or oldsters who offer to watch cars for a small tip. If it is refused, they slash tires, put gravel in the gas tank, disconnect the carburetor. In San Francisco, boys cluster around fashionable restaurants, try to watch cars or get taxis. Philadelphia had a lot of trouble with bands of 12-year-olds who worked a similar racket around Shibe Park, Temple Stadium, Franklin Field, the Convention Hall. Police finally stifled it by making arrests for "malicious mischief." Los Angeles police in the Hollywood area recently had to clean up an outbreak of car "jockeys...
...drafting amendments to the Traffic Code and City Charter forbidding it. Before they were passed, to City Magistrate Anthony F. Burke was brought 18-year-old Negro John Preston who admitted soliciting to watch cars, pleaded that no one had to accept his services. "That's a lot of horsefeathers!'' snapped the Magistrate, giving Negro Preston 15 days in jail...