Word: papered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discipline of the land have been cast to the winds, and the strong regard the statutes as scraps of paper, while crimes against person and property go unpunished by the officers. All safeguards of human liberty have been shattered...
...announced for London's Globs Theatre last week, the Lord Chamberlain, alert, notified the producers that those invidious passages in the Bible from which the play takes its name must not be incorporated in the dialog. Compliant, the producers deleted the passages, printed them on strips of paper slipped between the program leaves.* Even so, London was shocked at the play. There were purple passages (not Biblical); there was the actress, Jeanne De Casalis, in pajamas from which the producer had ordered the sleeves and lining stripped. Said Herbert Griffith in the Evening Standard: "I thought up to last...
...round of 91. Wild Bill Melhorn, only other U. S. entrant, took an excellent 82 on the final round but his aggregate was 324, out of the running. Only three players broke 80 on the final round. George Duncan, hoping to keep dry, stuffed his plus fours with brown paper, came to the first tee 14 strokes behind the leader, put down his head and played golf through the screaming storm. Displaying the most courageous game of his career, he shot a 74, and with an aggregate of 312, won by one stroke the first Irish Open Golf Championship...
Central Park, Manhattan, appears by day to be an ill-kept wasteland of stunted trees, ragged meadows, walks so tracked with gum-wrappers that they resemble the wake of a paper chase. At night not so; then the trees are like huge bundles of dark feathers, the lawns like scraps of green silk patterned with pathways. Here gum-chewers, muttering "loves me ... . loves me not . . ." as they tear the wrappers from their chiclets, take delight in strolling, in listening to the music coming from the Mall, where Edwin Franko Goldman conducts his band...
Soon Mr. Broun wired the news paper that he was "on strike" and ceased writing on any topic. Mr. Broun contended that "If I do not thumb my nose at the World's pet projects,"* he should be allowed freedom in his column. The World said No; said that in the reader's mind whatever he finds in a newspaper he credits to that Coolidge newspaper. says in "Did the you see World...