Word: peppered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the newcomers who are challenging the regulars for first team positions is Pepper Constable, former Princeton football fullback and rugby star who will give the first string backs considerable competition because of his clever open-field running...
...instead of buying stocks and bonds, it buys actual commodities or commodity future contracts. On December 31, 35% of its portfolio was in the warehouse, 65% in futures. It had future contracts to buy or sell in cocoa, copper, corn, cotton, hides, oats, rubber, sugar, wheat, wool and pepper. In the warehouse it held cocoa (179,482 lb.), lead (659,836 lb.), pepper (785,600 lb.), rubber (67,036 lb.), sugar (1,344,000 lb.), wool (51,751 lb.) and zinc (120,046 lb.). An investor who held 2% of Commodity Corp.'s outstanding shares on December 31 thus...
...Again, h-h-how?" questioned Professor Bell amid the hesitating start of a sneeze. Harold opened his mouth and sniff-sneezed. This was too much. "Have you a cold, Mr. Wilson? Or is there some pepper floating in the air?" At the end of an eternity the bell tolled four...
...arrested." Last week in Manhattan several days before the great rally, while Mr. Hays was delivering a radio attack on Mayor Hague over station WEVD, an unidentified young woman, passing as a reporter, slipped into the studio. Edging up to the speaker, she hurled a handful of pepper into Mr. Hays's face (see cut, p. 20). "You lie, goddam you," she shouted into the microphone and fled before anyone could stop...
...ship in the river!" Although the Yangtze is by treaty an international waterway, although all British vessels flew the British flag and had huge Union Jacks painted on their deck, three unsuccessful airplane attacks were made on the British gunboats Cricket and Scarab. Small calibre Japanese guns began to pepper the British gunboats Ladybird and Bee, the British river steamers Sui-Wo and Butterfield...