Word: omnibuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...literally translated motto would be: Ventrem semper impingentes (Those always bumping the belly). An omnibus noun would be Ventrimpactors. The Latin name of the pilot fish is Naucrates ductor...
...message from President Hoover requesting extraordinary unemployment relief funds (see p. 14). ¶ Passed the first supply bill, that for the Treasury & Post Office Departments totalling $1,083,553,943 after rejecting (106-10-54) a Wet proposal to eliminate poison as an industrial alcohol denaturant. ¶ Passed an omnibus Civil War pension bill benefiting 675 persons...
...announcement recognizing the new governments of Peru (three weeks old) and Bolivia (three months old). Almost simultaneously the London Foreign Office announced that its relations with Argentina remained unbroken. Statesman Stimson had run a dead heat with Great Britain. He listed minor reasons first for his diplomatic omnibus: i) the new governments were de facto; 2) nobody resisted them; 3) each had promised to regularize its status constitutionally. One half of the real reason for quick recognition he explained thus: "I have deemed it wise to act promptly in this matter in order that in the present economic situation...
Meanwhile London General Omnibus Co. laid off last week 194 busses and 250 busmen, announced that in these hard times unprecedentedly large numbers of the populace have begun to save pennies and ha'pence by walking...
...therefore he has avoided elaborate punning, which, though it pleases the groundlings, tends to obscure the meaning. Still there are a few-'Gas main' (Rogas manat), 'Stick-a-lips' (Aste Calypso) are good examples; the rest are puns of a single word like felix and omnibus. In this connection it is interesting to note that the centenary of this mode of public conveyance is marked by the recurrence of the same pun as was employed...