Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very fine bunch of my friends if I would not drop around with the New Orleans oysters and fry some of them for them in good Louisiana style and way. So, Mr. President, I bought a frying pan about 8 inches deep . . . and I bought a 10-pound bucket of cotton-seed-oil lard. ... I took the oysters, Mr. President, the way they should be taken, and laid them out on a muslin cloth, about twelve of them, and then you pull the cloth over and you dry the oysters. You dry them, you see, first with a muslin cloth...
...cloakroom couches looked up to see Huey Long making a beeline for the men's room, knew his filibuster was over. In 15½ hours he had filled 85 pages of the Congressional Record at a cost of $4,500. While on his feet he had consumed a pound and a half of grapes, half a pound of American cheese, 15 glasses of milk. He had set a record for one-man filibusters second only to the 18-hour and 23-minute performance of the late great Robert Marion LaFollette on the Aldrich-Vreeland currency bill...
FEBRUARY 13 --Dean Pound in annual report urges four year law course...
...would not eat a pound of cooked human flesh for $750,000 [TIME, May 13]? Tell these scientists, or whoever it is, they need not look further, as I will do it, providing it is the flesh of a man, white preferred. I would also like to designate the hour of the meal be evening, place, a ringside table where a good lively show is on, or the Pennsylvanians doing their best. I would also like to have the privilege of planning the rest of the menu to cat with...
Rousingly Chamber and Senate answered with smash votes of confidence 324-160 and 233-15 respectively. On international exchange the franc rose as the pound, dollar, fell, carrying up with it the Swiss franc, guilder and lira. Displeased were French Communists and extreme Socialists, their spleeny spokesman being Pinko Deputy Leon LaGrange who had declared in debate, "The 200 families who rule this country are opposing the National will!" These villains, Deputy La-Grange said, are headed by "the regents of the Bank of France, de Rothschild and de Wendel!" In French villages sage peasants with gold in their mattresses...