Word: plugs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sharp eye of President Roosevelt last week focused upon women's high button shoes. Along with rubbers, corsets, kimonos, camisoles, stockings, dresses, cotton drawers, aprons, bloomers, lingerie, hairpins, princess slips and plug tobacco, he found button shoes listed as an item used by the Department of Labor in calculating its periodic Cost-of-Living index. The President needed no style expert to inform him that such footwear was now an anachronism even in the back-country districts. Suspecting that Madam Secretary Perkins' statisticians were behind the times on other articles in daily use, he ordered a complete revision...
...that she recovers from drinking poison. Bill marries Letty. When Bill begins misbehaving and Letty falls ill, it is Dr. Watt, not his son Jimmy, grown into a prosperous young surgeon, who saves her life again. His reward for a lifetime as a self-abnegating "country plug" arrives when a specialist from the city, after observing his methods of curing Letty Radford, makes a speech at a medical banquet, calls Dr. Watt a great physician. As Dr. Watt, Lionel Barrymore acts so shrewdly that Katharine Haviland Taylor's lachrymose little story has moments of validity...
Last week the Yangtze River Conservancy Commission rushed gangs of coolies to plug holes in the dikes with mattresses of woven reeds. With the Long Dragon still rising at Hankow, the Bund and parts of the French and Japanese concessions were already a foot deep in water. Afraid that even Nanking the capital, only 200 miles from the sea, might be flooded, the Government sent out soldiers who rounded up every coolie they could catch, prodded them out to the Yangtze's brim, kept them working day and night under bayonet guard, piling up dirt and still more dirt...
Thereupon Dentist Dreher hatched some germ-free blowfly eggs and fed the larvae for twelve hours on pig-liver. One of these tiny maggots he penned in the pulp chamber of the tooth with a light cotton plug. Three days of work killed the maggot. Another slim maggot then went to work, delved for three days, died. Then a third maggot. After nine days the tooth was cleaner than a dog's, "with the exception of a thin, hard, white secretion left on the wall of the canal by the maggot." That coating was sterile...
...cartoon by potent Rollin Kirby. entitled "Not on the Same Side of the Street," pictured plug-hatted Banker Morgan and his partners walking unconcerned up one sidewalk while on the other a long line of common citizens waited humbly to pay their income taxes.∙ A feature by Reporter Earl Sparling blatantly exaggerated the House of Morgan's "control" of everything John Doe eats, drinks and uses. Ruth Finney was permitted to shrill: "They [Morgan & Co.] can regiment something like $53,000,00,.000 to do their bidding." Another story bitterly inventoried the Morgan expenditures on yachts, model farms...