Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Drinking goes on in the vilest places in Minneapolis. There is not a decent speakeasy in the city but there are 3,000 beer flats where girls preside. A young fellow telephones to Clara or Rose that, he is bringing up a friend and she gets a friend. They pull the shades, drink and other things go on. . . . They also have their beer farms in Minnesota, open to city boys and girls who motor out, drink and rent a room if they want...
...University Mining Research Laboratory, and Leonard Erskine Hill, 63, famed physiologist, recently saved a hapless Englishman from gaol. The fellow and two friends had drunk some beer before he took them for a ride in his closed motor car. The car bogged in a pool of water. Trying to pull out, he raced his motor for about 15 minutes, when he became drowsy. A constable came along to scold. He smelled the driver's sour breath, arrested him for driving while inebriated. He did not arrest the two passengers. They were dead, from alcohol declared the police surgeon, from...
...store above which unique President Irigoyen lives in a modest apartment waited the Presidential automobile with its usual accompaniment of escorting automobiles, aides, detectives. Correspondent Aguidino gave a casual glance at a dingy little man in a faded brown suit who lounged nearby. He saw the dingy little man pull a large pistol from his pocket, run into the middle of the street, fire once. President Irigoyen's chauffeur, quick-witted, sent the car zigzagging from curb to curb as the little man fired again and again. Other pistols banged in the bright sunlight. Members of the President's bodyguard...
...Charles Edgar Welch. Founder of the company, Dr. Welch was known up to his death in 1926 as an ardent prohibitionist. His discovery, with his father, of "the best process for producing an unfermented and non-intoxicating grape juice"* led him to abandon his Philadelphia dental practice and pull the teeth of the grape. High points in his career were: member, Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church; delegate, General Conference of M. E. Church (four times); trustee, Chautauqua Institution of Chautauqua, N. Y.; president, town of Westfield. N. Y. (six times); Prohibition Candidate for Governor...
...Harian T. Stetson, director of the Perkins Observatory at Ohto Wesleyan University, for which the mirror is being cast at the Bureau of Standards, discussed land-tides similar in origin to the tides of the ocean. That the earth's crust actually shifts as a result of the gravitational pull of the moon on the earth is the theory advanced by Dr. Stetson...