Word: padded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...canvas-backed armchair in front of my table. On it I put an alarm clock, my shaving-mirror, a pencil, a memorandum pad, a glass of water and a teaspoonful of the powder. I slipped into the chair, faced the mirror, poured the powder into the water-drank it, looked at the clock, took the pencil and wrote on the pad: 'Took powder one minute past two o'clock.' Then I leaned back and waited for things to happen...
...usual. He began to talk with vigor, paused to laugh sharply, taking a shrewd thrust at his critics, then continued, making his points vigorously. He was giving newshawks better copy than he had given them in months, but the head of more than one newshawk, bending over his note pad, shook slowly from side to side while its owner murmured. "He's got it, all right- the disease of Presidents...
...testily how far blood spurts from an open artery. Dr. Clement Harrisse Arnold, 49, of San Francisco, whose hobby is murder evidence, marched into court. Dr. Arnold had a thick gauze pad fixed with adhesive tape to the back of his neck. Said he: "So far as I know, no one has ever experimented with a human being to find out how far his blood will shoot. So I undertook an actual experiment...
Visiting Washington last week, the Right Honorable Alderman Alfred Byrne, Lord Mayor of Dublin, sat down to listen to a radio broadcast of the 97th running of the Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree. A reporter asked him who he thought would win. Lord Mayor Byrne called for pencil & pad, puffed out his cheeks, wrote down his selections: 1, Reynoldstown; 2, Blue Prince; 3, Thomond II. The announcer said: "They...
Instantly 65-year-old Mahatma Gandhi reached for his pad of telegraph blanks, sent out a circular wire to leaders of the Indian National Congress, demanding a general mobilization of protest "since this child is unquestionably unfit to marry a man of such ripe years." Hindu reporters, most of whom have a sneaking sympathy for such bridegrooms, described the rejuvenated Hindu as "defiant," as "resolved to have his rights...