Word: rail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bumper is a spiked belt de-signed to keep the amorous at a respectable distance. The deterrent is three projecting steel bars about three inches in length. French maidens have entered no public protest at this attempt to rail them...
...women writers, her attitude toward the war was the sanest, and her Kings, Queens and Pawns is a magnificent piece of reporting. Her work for the Department of Justice was secret, brave and successful. It is characteristic of her that she hates trains, that she arrives from a rail-road journey a nervous wreck; but that she can ride a horse steadily for weeks through the most dangerous western passes...
When A. H. Woods presented his Light Wines and Beer in Chicago, he reconstructed a bar, brass rail and all, in the lobby of the theatre...
...regulations had been in force for some time and many of the colleges were beginning to show perceptible High Church tinge. But Emmanuel, due to the influence mainly of Chaderton, who still lived there though no longer master, was strongly non-conformist; all the decadent wits of the time rail at "pure Emmanuel". It held itself aloof from the rest of the University, and kept its own council and habits. When the other colleges accepted the inevitable and worshipped according to the king's command. Emmanuel alone refused to conform and probably because of the respect for Chaderton...
...hand, we have Senator Cummins, chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee and author of the Esch-Cummins Law, protesting that the merger remedy may even now be too late and that Government operation of many roads is already an inescapable necessity. On the other hand, rail earnings for January show an increase in profits from 2.75 per cent in 1922 to 5.54 per cent for January of this year, which argues that the roads are on the way to recovery and should be let alone. The conflict of interests involving the big roads, the weak roads, the Government...