Word: pile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once, during a bitter winter, the guardian begged him to sleep on a pile of blankets in the store. John seemed to agree but when closing time came and he was locked inside the store, he set up a warlike screeching and threatened to wreck the place. He was turned out and he took to the woods to sleep in his usual...
This native plaster industry which has been in operation for sixty years, has presumably destroyed untold quantities of Triassic fossils. The specimen from the new chasmatosaurid genus was rescued from a rock pile destined for one of the kilns...
...Jack Hammell ran a speech in a Toronto newspaper at full advertising rates, surprising the publisher if not himself when readers unanimously acclaimed it as the best feature of the day. Another Toronto millionaire prospector is Tony Oklend, an Austrian emigrant who staked Long Lac in 1926. From his pile he bought a big house in the suburbs, hired a platoon of servants headed by a butler. When the servants arrived he called them together to announce: "I don't care what you do around here but I do the cooking...
...there was screaming. In a moment oil field workers shut off the pumps under their derricks and came running toward the pile. Fathers and mothers, 100 of whom had been attending a meeting of the Parent-Teachers' Association in the school gymnasium, rushed up white-faced. From the shining school buses lined up to take them home tumbled scores of scared kindergarten moppets to help dig under the debris from which appalling screams and cries could be heard. Slowly the diggers realized the extent of the tragedy as they found they had stretched, at the first count, 220 corpses...
...police of Boston, where he had mulcted various people of some $100,000 to start his financial sheet. Like Boston's Charles Ponzi, he promised huge returns on funds entrusted to him for reinvestment, made enough "dividend" payments from principal to reassure his victims, who then hurried to pile in more & more. But none of these outrageous facts was known to the Observer's subscribers until last week...