Word: muffler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Muffler. Wags have said: "In England everything stops for tea." And contemporary wags have added that British workingmen would stop a revolution for a soccer Cup Final. As the soccer season last week reached a point something like the Fourth of July in U. S. baseball, discussions in pubs and clubs rose to a fine pitch of excitement. Although Brentford, a London club, was leading the First Division, with 14 wins and seven draws for a total of 35 points,† another London club, Arsenal, was widely fancied to end the season...
...characteristic anticlimax Larry Kelley had the grippe. The 7,500 hero worshippers who went to Boston's Fenway Park to see him-only a third that many people ordinarily go to see the Shamrocks-were disappointed. Larry Kelley was present, but sitting in a box with a muffler round his neck...
...plates, the portrait of George & Jock was not Artist Munnings' only contribution to the Academy. There was one of his usual, impeccable race horse scenes, and almost identical to George & Jock in composition was a study called The Polish Rider, showing a longhaired man in a knitted cap & muffler walking a chunky horse over snowy fields...
...your sensation of speed. A few inches beneath you is the ice, now white and granular, now slick as black glass, racing by to the singing of the wind in your rigging and the crisp cutting sound of the sharp-bladed runners. You put your nose down into your muffler to catch a warm breath-the wind has you gasping and your cheeks feel shaved by the Z in Zero. Hard into the tall sail overhead smashes a fresh gust and up, up come your shoulders as the boat keels over with one runner high off the ice, ripping along...
Wearing an old Etonian tie under his red muffler, Britain's 34-year-old Earl of Kinnoull fretfully paced the deck of the trawler Mino which was anchored olf Southampton last week while customs officials nosed around the ship's hold. His Lordship was all ready to sail to Spain with 100 tons of food and $5,000 to aid Madrid's Radical Government. No hidebound aristocrat is Lord Kinnoull. In 1928 he married the daughter of the late Kate Meyrick, London's "Night Club Queen" who was imprisoned five times for selling unlicensed liquor, bribing...