Word: lumped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eligible at the outset-will receive a monthly return benefit . . . larger than he could purchase from any private insurance company with the taxes he will have paid the Government. These monthly benefits will range from $10 to $85 a month. If a worker dies before reaching age 65 a lump sum payment is made to his family. This lump sum will amount to 3½% of the total wages he has earned after...
...Stephen Cartright returned from Siberia a hero and re-entered Carnegie Tech. He was resuming the study of metallurgical engineering which he had abandoned to join the army. He carried a lump on his head where a pistol butt wielded by a Bolshevik had landed. Vacationing from College three years later, Veteran Cartright collapsed. On recovering consciousness he learned that he was incurably blind and deaf...
...United Artists for years. Nick Schenck stuck by Loew's, taking over when the founder died in 1927. For box-office results Nick Schenck likes his pictures sentimental. Once when a feature was submitted for his approval, he shook his head dolefully, pointed to his throat, remarked: "No lump." There was plenty of sentiment in last week's deal which would appeal to stock holders, whose approval must be obtained before any of the plans bear fruit. Part & parcel of the financial proposals are straight business agreements wrhich will benefit all three companies. The when & how of these...
...obscenity that they can be printed in full only in his own Der Strümer. Last week a naturalized U. S. citizen named Ludwig Hoffmann was in a Nürnberg jail for having had the audacity to describe Nürnberg's Boss Streicher as a Lump at a Nürnberg beer festival. Citizen Hoffmann, who lives in Chicago and went back to his German birthplace only to show off his Danish wife, asked and got the backing of U. S. Consul General Douglas Jenkins in Berlin, who protested last week to the German Ministry...
...Lump is no violent epithet. In meaning it ranges from rag or garbage to rascal, mucker or good-for-nothing. Many a good Nazi has privately called Herr Streicher far worse. But the corollary of Streicher's philosophy that "A Jew is always a Jew," is "A German is always a German, even if he lives at the North Pole...