Word: palling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Memorial Highway. On the highway at Jamestown, the county seat, stands one modern brick building-the Alvin C. York Agricultural Institute. Not in the Institute last week was its founder, Fentress County's beefy, red-headed first citizen. He sat in gloomy exile at his farm at Pall Mall, six miles away...
...From Pall Mall, last week, Sergeant York grimly began to round up his friends in the State Legislature, persuade them to take the Institute out of the hands of the School Board and turn it over entirely to him. Boycotting the Institute were the Sergeant's children-Alvin Jr., 15; George Edward Buxton (named for the Sergeant's War-time major), 12; Woodrow Wilson, 10; Andrew Jackson, 5; Betsy Ross, 3. Snorted Alvin C. York when the Board offered to make him the Institute's "honorary president": "I am like the late Cal Coolidge...
Pittsburgh. Aviators passing over Pittsburgh customarily see that No. 1 U. S. steel city through a grey pall of smoke. Last week for the first time the Smoky City stood out sharp & clear. The fires of its great mills and factories were banked...
Chicago and gangsters are connected in the minds of all schoolboys and Europeans, yet from Chicago comes a distinctly cheery beam to lighten the gloomy pall of crime that hangs over America, the land of the free. The Windy City's crime commission has confidently denied the possibility of a revival of gang wars, declaring that "there is nothing left to fight about." If this statement is true, and not merely an empty vaunting of civic pride, then Chicago has undeniably justified the hopes of the prophets who freed the country from prohibition shackles...
...swank Guards' Club, along Pall Mall and at every officers' mess in the British Empire, there was but one consuming topic of conversation last week. The new young Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden might not be doing much at the moment (see col. 3), but the new young War Secretary Alfred Duff Cooper had just signed the most drastic reorganization order the British Army has ever received. In effect this Mayfair scion, whose famed wife Lady Diana Manners played The Virgin in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle, ordered: "No more cavalry...