Word: pack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lies about me within the past two years. Assuming I have received only my pro rata share of Baron Pearson's prevarications, this data may be projected to the conclusion that this modern Munchausen has concocted 24 falsehoods about every person on whom he has unleashed his yelping pack of lies. Projecting this calculation further, it can be estimated that during the past two years it has suited the purposes of Colonel Pearson to smear at least 2,000 persons . . . It mathematically follows that Colonel Pearson has manufactured . . . 48,000 units of mendacity. That is mass production...
...good grey New York Times, which can pack more into a lead sentence than a Saratoga trunk should be expected to hold, sometimes can't get the lid closed. Last week a special dispatch from Johannesburg began: "Nationalist Party members of Parliament, sitting as the High Court of Parliament, handed down a ruling today setting aside the appeal court's invalidation of the Voters Act that removed colored (mixed blood) voters from the common electoral roll...
Most of Sam's family were "abandoned Presbyterians," and so church was also available as a place for mischief. Once Sam and a friend were almost caught playing euchre in the parish house. In desperation they stuffed the pack into the sleeves of the preacher's "baptising robe." Next time the preacher was immersing converts, the cards slid out of his sleeve one by one, and floated serenely down the river, "the first cards being a couple of bowers and three aces." Caught and flogged, Sam (or maybe it was the friend) sobbed through his tears...
...next heat, the trotter came into the final turn with the pack, was swung wide by Shively, took a clear lead, pounded home in front of the Duke in his best race time ever, 1/5 sec. better than his Santa Anita mark. A 19-to-20 odds-on favorite in the third heat, Sharp Note finally brought the crowd around to Bi's original conclusion. Lagging back in the field until the last turn, he again showed his wallop in the homestretch, beat Hit Song by two lengths, going away. Sharp Note's purse...
Hair of the Dog. In Inglewood, Calif., when George D. Pauly dropped a 50-lb. cake of ice on his toe, a doctor advised: "Go home and keep your foot in an ice pack...