Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bright sinner. From failure and success he made equally quick recoveries. Edevart and he roamed the country, peddled worthless watches, fished, worked in the fields, schemed, got drunk and lost everything, time & again. August, always on the way up or down, never got anywhere; but Edevart nearly made his pile, succeeded at least in giving his young brother the chance to reap where he had sowed. When he was skipper for Trader Knoff, Edevart was the big man of Polden, and brought a short-lived prosperity to his native hamlet. But he was always too kindhearted, the roguery he learned...
...going to find out how they are playing. In so doing you run the risk of missing the trend of the play, for you may find that the man you have picked out for scrutiny has ended up somewhere a half a mile west of the final pile-up. If you watch the same man on a number of successive plays, however, you are pretty sure to get some idea of how he is conducting himself, without, it may be added, missing very much of the game in general...
...story in Great Britain, this was introduced in the U. S. by the St. Louis Star in 1919. Ever since the late great Lord Northcliffe began to pile up massive circulations, British newsreaders have been able to get accident insurance practically free. Sometimes no contract was necessary : Lord Northcliffe once agreed to pay ?1,000 to the heirs of anyone killed in a railroad train who had a copy of the Daily Mail on his person; other British papers made similar offers. Two years ago. under Lord Rothermere (Northcliffe's successor-brother) the Daily Mail paid...
When they need a handy man; We're the watchdogs of a coal-pile...
...current Bookman. Excerpt: "Assurances that illiteracy is decreasing among us or that many more children than used to go on nowadays to secondary school and college . . . are, to be sure, sources of joy; but still the horrid picture remains of an increasing immaturity at the top of the intellectual pile-of a world dominated and directed by retarded adolescents. Peter Pan is a charming figure in fantasy; but a real world led by little boys who have never grown up is a concept that has nightmare possibilities. . . . "One of the first assumptions of American education seems to be that fathers...