Word: pad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...full college generation older than his classmates, ambitious Mark Sullivan stuck close to his books, lost no time on athletics, glee clubs, social life. Earning an A. B. in 1900, he stayed on for three years of law, meantime writing special articles for the Boston Transcript to pad out his dwindling $5,500. After a brief and briefless stab at the law in Manhattan, his Transcript record got him a job with Edward Bok for a spirited, 18-month campaign against quack patent medicines in the Ladies' Home Journal. In 1905 came two milestones in Mark Sullivan...
Rubbings are made by placing a large sheet of paper over the area that is to be reproduced and pushing it carefully into the interstices of the relief so that it makes a closely fitting cover. an inked pad is then rubbed lightly over the surface inking the high spots of the relief and producing an accurate impression of the figures...
...dramatized. So he acquired a curious jack-of-all-political-trades named Samuel Davis Wilson. Mr. Wilson began issuing statements for Controller Hadley that made news: How city funds bought a barber's chair for City Solicitor Augustus Trask ("Dandy Gus) Ashton; how Coroner Schwarz got a $25 desk pad, and a $25 wastebasket. And presently Mr. Wilson, although no member of the Bar, was allowed by a friendly judge personally to argue a big traction suit in which he was opposed by some of Philadelphia's best corporation lawyers...
Businessmen who want to avoid unwelcome callers announce that they are busy, can see no one who has not an appointment. The U. S. Senate has a better system. By refusing to tear off the top sheet on its legislative appointment pad, it can make one day last indefinitely, keep unwelcome bills at bay for weeks. Thus on the evening of May 13 the Senate by recessing instead of adjourning refused to tear off the top sheet of its pad, and the legislative day went gaily on. The Senate passed the Labor Relations Bill, gave NRA a shadow-lease...
...citizens in Mexico. With the petition was presented a memorial stating that the signers were unalterably opposed to any semblance of interference in Mexico but urging the President to undertake "the moral vindication of an ethical principle." Reaching out a large hand, Franklin Roosevelt drew a pad of paper toward him, flicked out his fountain pen and, like a true statesman, straightway declared himself. A few minutes later his "moral vindication of an ethical principle" was in the hands of the Press: "The President stated that he is in entire sympathy with all people who make it clear that...