Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frances Elizabeth Willard, longtime (1879-98) president of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, is held dear by all teetotalers. She dried up Evanston, Ill. so thoroughly that to this day you have to drive several miles west of town to a row of beer-saloons or push south into adjacent Chicago to get a drink. From 1859 to 1874 Miss Willard spent most of her time in Evanston, first as a student at Northwestern Female College (now part of Northwestern University), later on the faculty of Evanston College for Ladies (then as now also part...
...most respects the Futura magazines are published and circulated in the same manner as their predecessors. Advertising is sold in both magazines together (15 pages in the first issue). Most of the products advertised are sold in the stores; and store managers are advised how to push advertised wares...
...Hemingways was the revival in Los Angeles of several old-time melodramas in which, it was noticed, most of the villains were named Hemingway. The charter members and founders were three disgustingly fresh young men who hate everyone, who trip up old ladies on stairs, wrest candy from children, push invalids down hills in wheel chairs and take away cripples' crutches. Most Horrible (official title) is Alan Brown, sophomore at Pomona College. The other two: Robert Forbes, sophomore at Stanford; Parley Johnson, student at Harvard School, Los Angeles...
...three weeks, reduced his cigarets to two per day, cut out veal. It rained steadily. He stood the discipline for five days, then set out again on his gay travels. At Pilsen he inspected the brewery, emptied a row of steins in less than two minutes, begged someone to push him into a foamy vat. A delegation of actors met and praised him at Prague. An enthusiastic Czech presented him with a wire-haired fox terrier. When he reached Budapest he complained of writer's cramp from prodigal autographing. There he was given a bottle of 1827 tokay...
...have known, not only frightened the British cabinet but frightened the great house of Rothschild, whose wealth is as much in Great Britain as on the continent. Through their Paris and their London houses the Rothschilds exerted every pressure to stop the French run on British gold, to push through the Franco-U. S. credit to the Bank of England. But if Britons needed any further knowledge of their country's precarious finances it came at Westminster when on the day that Parliament adjourned the Government's Economy Commission, appointed last spring, presented its recommendations for an immediate...