Word: peeler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Samuel R. Rosoff arrived in Manhattan from Russia for the second time in his life. On his first arrival he was an 11-year-old potato-peeler. Last week he occupied princely staterooms on the Berengaria. In Russia he, a potent Manhattan contractor, turned down a 200-million-dollar subway and waterworks contract for Moscow, because the U. S. does not recognize the Soviets...
...Peel was honored at death for sacrificing popular favor and party goodwill to the welfare of the nation. That welfare he fostered by an impressive array of reforms-most of them in the face of impassioned opposition: Catholic Emancipation in Ireland; establishment of constabulary forces-the London Bobbie (or Peeler) by tradition is nicknamed in his honor; wise factory legislation; reorganization of taxation, currency, criminal law; development of a new liberal Conservative party out of the reactionary Tories; and finally, drastic Free Trade measures which initiated the vast expansion of British trade...
...under Memorial Hall in the form of a power plant, ice plant, electric laundry, a large bakery, a butcher-shop, numerous refrigerating rooms, an oversize range and roasting oven, numerous old-fash-loned steam jacketed ketties, sundry machines such as electric ice cream freezer and an automatic potato peeler...
Cheese-it and Peeler...
...Hang such mud, anyway! Three cheers for the house on the right, 750 times! Ditto for house on left, 700 times! Ladies in the balcony, 50 each! Ladies with Roman candles, three! Contemplative peeler on left, one! Bully for the man who treated to coffee...