Word: pinned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Looking wise, local journalists wrote that tourists seldom learn of these cities' numerous resorts, mostly patronized by Canadians. Worst of Montreal Vice, opined local reporters, is the depression-bred habit of some impecunious high school girls, who earn pin money by stopping briefly after school in questionable houses, then go on home to their unsuspecting and respectable parents...
Their techniques are interesting and ingenious. Most perfectly developed is the art of ball stealing. While some minor disturbance such as boundary flag removal serves as distraction in a corner of the field, an unnoticed performer, armed with a pin, approaches a ball which a player has momentarily left unguarded, pierces a seam, shoves the deflating pellet under his shirt, and at a warning signal everyone stampedes for the fence...
...Mercury points to the paradox of this University's relation to the New Deal. Mr. Houghton, the author is not exaggerating in this gloomy prediction of the future of the liberal university under such a form of government. He falls victim, however, to superficial appearances when he attempts to pin Mr. Roosevelt and his administration on Harvard...
Pursuing a bland course through all this excitement, Detectives Harwood and Fenton eventually dig through the intrigues of a bogus reform group, pin the crimes on the least suspectable person in a final melee, which, for those cinemaddicts who want their mysteries solved with explicit completeness, is about the only unsatisfying thing in the picture...
...husband, the late wealthy U. S. Senator Horace Austin Warner ("Haw") Tabor (TIME, March 18, 1935). To an eager crowd were offered a dozen silver nut picks, a pearl-encrusted fan, 50 silk handkerchiefs, a quart of rye whiskey, dozens of photographs, a gold safety pin which once secured the diapers of Baby Doe's daughter Rose Mary Echo Silver Dollar Tabor. A silver dollar made into a locket containing Silver Dollar Tabor's picture drew the highest bid: $26. Finally, the auctioneer hoisted a pair of long red flannels which Baby Doe wore for years before...