Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Homer Martin, slim, bespectacled head of the United Automobile Workers, is a preacher by training, and after he won the national hop, step & jump championship at 22 he was invariably called the "Leaping Parson." From the Leeds Baptist Church on the outskirts of Kansas City, where the deacons thought his labor gospel somewhat apocryphal, he leaped to a Chevrolet assembly line, then to leadership of a Kansas City local and finally in one tremendous leap to the front of C.I.O.'s noisiest, most turbulent union. Last week President Martin found himself in a spot from which he could...
...Cleveland, on Aug. 6, Sheriff Martin O'Donnell's office received a scrawled anonymous letter: "This is just to warn you that the 2 Bird bros. you have in for bank robbery have it all set to break out at 3 o'clock this afternoon with their pal Widmer. . . ." A special guard was placed around the cells of Frank and Charles Bird, young Missouri desperadoes awaiting trial for bank robbery, and their friend James Widmer who last year escaped from the Missouri Penitentiary. Nothing happened...
Lowest priced completely furnished trailer was the Indian Trailer Corporation's Papoose at $295. Sleeping four the 1,250-lb. two-wheeler has stove, heater, icebox and running water. Top price was $1,580 for the generator-equipped Martin EckO with electric refrigeration, ice cubes, shower, hot and cold running water. Refinements in some 1937 trailers include: chromium-plated bath tubs; porcelain vapor stoves; writing desks; radios; roomy wardrobes; fireplaces. But a trailer is still a trailer, confined by restrictions of various states to a maximum length of about 22 ft., width and height around...
Brian Kilmartin, bald, bony, hawk-featured tenant farmer on the hills above the village of Crom; his sons Michael and Martin, and Martin's newlywed wife Mary, are the principal characters. The story starts the year before the famine when the blight touched a tithe of the crop with the first dapplings of disaster. The damage was small that year, but it was enough to make the Kilmartins draw in their belts a little. Potatoes (dug fresh from the ground in summer, stored in fern-lined earthen pits through the winter; served boiled, with a bowlful of salt water...
...years ago, in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, there were four persons known, by name at least, to the most assiduous tourist and most casual habitué. These were: Flossie Martin, plump, china-cheeked ex-show girl; Kiki, black-haired, impish French painters' model; Nina Hamnett, English painter and expert on sailors' chanteys; Jimmy Charters, ruddy-faced and unfailingly genial barman. The four were not friends, were in fact rather rivals, each ruling a separate coterie-the ladies at their tables at the Dome, Rotonde or Select, Jimmy at whatever bar he happened to be tending...