Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leaned, dry-throated and tired, against a fantastically-contorted tree and looked about him. The great, barren hills staggered into each other like drunken giants. Then he looked back and below and his heart quickened again. All the valley spread and undulated in miniature graciousness, remote, like a misty pool of gold in the late sun. An elfin land it seemed, sending up a teasing shower of elfin bells from the moving sheep. Irresistibly drawn, the Vagabond began his descent...
...Gates Dawes could boast of a grown adopted son, a grown adopted daughter. In Santa Barbara, Calif., the John J. Mitchells (Lolita Armour) could likewise boast of two adopted children. Down the Coast in Hollywood, many a cinemadopted youngster rested securely in his crib, or romped beside a private pool. There the visitor could read about Wallace Beery's 4-year-old Carol Ann, Gloria Swanson's Joseph, Harold Lloyd's Peggy, Constance Bennett's Peter, Morton & Barbara Bennett Downey's Michael, Barbara Stanwyck's Dion, Fredric March's 3-year-old Jacqueline...
...latter, there are about 10,000 in Chicago, 20,000 in New York, 100,000 scattered about the country, in cigar stores, poolrooms, newsstands, lunch rooms. Some are agents for big bookmaking establishments. The majority are independent. Since pari-mutuels-machine betting at race tracks through a general pool, in which the odds are determined by the amount bet on each horse and of which the state and track each get a share -have been legalized in 23 states, bookmaking has increased instead of declined. Big bettors and system bettors prefer to bet against bookmakers because their odds, unlike pari...
...evening perfume, should lead the parado toward a war bigger and more ethic. Occupied with the loathsome mechanics of bombers and howitzers, the cruder nations seem to have lost sight of the aesthetic side of that man Mars. But there is no good reason why Gabrielic Chanel cannot pool her resources with the Quat d'Orsay in a gigantic endeavor, so that at the moment of the next Serajeve France will not be caught with her vanity case unopened...
...boxing instructor at Pittsburgh Athletic Association. The club had just been inaugurated [in 1911] and a night set apart for the opening of the beautiful pool. The elite of Pittsburgh were in attendance; a polo game was the exciting event. I was merely a spectator on the side lines. Ruddy punched an opponent on the nose and a reciprocal punch from his swimming antagonist caused Ruddy's nose to bleed. . . . I ordered the swimmers out of the tank and they knew their master's voice. Like a lot of sardines they crawled to the dressing room...