Word: packed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young,* wooden bowls were turned where "dish timber" grew and "minifers" (pins) came whence brass could be drawn into wire. New England resourcefulness produced "Yankee notions" which found a ready market with the agrarian Dutch, the simple Quakers, the luxury-loving Southerners. Bright young Yankees left home with a packful of Neighbor Brown's nutmegs, Neighbor Smith's pie tins and Uncle Timothy's rawhide "whangs" (shoe-laces). Bronson Alcott hit the road with tinware and almanacs instead of going to Yale. Worcester Polytechnic Institute was founded by John Boynton, onetime pack-peddler. The original soap Babbitt...
...tainted William S. Vare. The Pennsylvanian insisted that the regular Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, containing a majority of old-guard Republicans, was best fitted to count these ballots. The result was the Battle of the Cousins which displaced all other Senate business; which turned Senators into a pack of snarling, sleepless animals; which littered the chamber with apple cores, pitchers of ice water and ancient documents. The time-filling tactics of the filibusterers were crude. Instead of reading Shakespeare or Byron, they had the clerk read yesterday's journal. Senator Cameron plodded through a document on copper...
...rest, the President's paragraphs were like a well-trained pack of dogs worrying a clumsy bear to death...
...same week a rival revivalist, the kindly Billy Sunday, arrived in Atlanta, Ga., with a few practical interpretations of the Scriptures. He commented that Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick and his "pack of pretentious, pliable, mental perverts [Modernists] are dedicated to the destruction of religion and one and all are lia,rs, so labeled by the authority of Almighty God." He called for the expulsion of President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University...
...next few days, Sir Oliver was deluged with mail. By tens of thousands thinkers (and guessers) wrote in to say that the cards held up had been every card in the pack, including the joker. Actually, as a few guessed, it was the deuce of clubs, later the nine of hearts? but no one described the design of the cards: green on a black field, and red on a black field. They said the picture was a portrait of Edward VII, of the Prince of Wales on horseback, of Mona Lisa, of a spaniel, a cauliflower. Actually...