Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Well, au revoir!' The coachman whipped up his cob, and the little party rumbled off along Fifty-ninth Street, Tilley brandishing his brassie with great ferocity at a horsefly. As we turned, we discovered to our surprise that the sidewalk, where he had paused a moment, was a pool of tears...
...reasonably priced ready-made dresses, no cheap-but-good shoes." Most appreciated exhibit seemed to be the Aetna Life Insurance Co.'s so-called "Steerometer and Reactometer," a gadget on which visitors could test their fitness to drive a car. Unexplained last week was a heavily draped pool table. A bust of John D. Rockefeller Sr. stared at a bust of Mahatma Gandhi by Jo Davidson. On tables were perspective models of Boulder Dam and an artificially moonlit Triborough Bridge, with space reserved for a coming model of the New York Exposition of 1939. After this visitors are ready...
...telephone them back to city hall while he is speaking. An hour later he may be back at his office to see a queue of people who have been waiting for hours, interview a deputy commissioner, perform a marriage for an eager friend, rush off to inspect a swimming pool, a hospital, a ferryboat or a street accident...
...grinder, either for or against the New Deal, though personally she leans more toward the liberalism of her brother, Joe, than toward the Hearst policies. She is an old friend of Harold Ickes, entertains Joseph Kennedy and Harry Hopkins, recently had Mrs. Roosevelt splashing around in her swimming pool all afternoon...
...Frankford, Pa. 58 years ago, President Mackie went to Princeton Theological Seminary, spent a quarter-century in a church in a Philadelphia suburb called Sharon Hill, where he organized what is supposed to be the only church-owned country club in the U. S. complete with clubhouse, swimming pool and 18-hole golf course. He forged to the front in Fund affairs in 1930, when he fought a revival of the Wanamaker movement, won a court battle for a place on the board of directors. No crabbed theologian. Dr. Mackie thinks his troubles in handling preachers' insurance are virtually...