Word: rig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mosques and snake charmers and fire walkers and clever elephants is exceeded in interest and enchantment only perhaps by the richness and beauty of its philosophy and literature. On a carpet woven of these finest thoughts and sentiments of India the Vagabond is thus flying today. It is the "Rig Veda." To those who would be led by this sacred book they will find a journey equal in length to the works of Homer, and in beauty comparable to the Bible. Perhaps in no other literature is the worship of the personified powers of nature so beautifully expressed and faithfully...
Professor Clark, "The Rig Veda", Harvard...
...deep in the staterooms. When it had spread its stench and filth into the public rooms, a band of women got down on their knees, tried to scrub the floors. Passenger hero turned out to be Henry Treger. National Broadcasting Co. engineer, who climbed the stack to help re-rig the radio antenna. "I never expected to get down safely," he recalled. ''The wind fairly burned...
...Viscount Sankey. although ranking higher as Lord High Chancellor, is subject to removal with every change of Cabinet. Last week the long, lean Viscount sat toying with a rolled up copy of the bill and faintly smiling, while the short, fat Baron accused him broadly of a maneuver to rig the judiciary and more precisely of specific machinations to obstruct the seniority rights of Lord Justice Slesser ("Slosher"), a rabid Socialist...
This time it was fat Baron Hewart who wore a contemptuous, judicial smile, while lean Viscount Sankey, in defending the Government against charges of attempting to rig Justice, shouted, "Moonshine! Moonshine!! MOONSHINE...