Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...headed General Owen O'Duffy. founder of the United Ireland opposition party, was rallying his blue-shirted Irish Fascists to a meeting in the little Kerry town of Tralee by the sea, they got the feel of a shillalah in one hand, the heft of a handful of rock in the other and tramped into Tralee. When they saw the Blue Shirts coming they flung their rocks, howling ''Up de Valera!", "O'Duffy is a traitor!", then ducked in for the shillalah work. Some of them set upon General O'Duffy, bludgeoned him bloody-pated...
...room, that a trip to the club cabin on Mt. Washington has been arranged for next Sunday. Those who take the trip will busy themselves with clearing a long ski-trail and building a shelter near the cabin for the supplies to be used this winter. Mountaineering trips, local rock-climbs, and skiing expeditions have been planned for nearly every week end throughout the year, as well as several club dinners and lectures...
Professor Mather, quick to see the mistake, was too eager to rectify the quake. So he erased the new order of things, substituted the old (LEFT CENTRE RIGHT). With heads like rock and feet like sheep, the human debris of the last quake quaked again, until the official seating arrangement was finally restored. Thus it was learnt that a class in geology can take an active part in a first-class cataclysm, and still have half an hour left for sleep or for hearing a lecture on the character and ancestors of the responsible Mr. Fate, who slyly escaped...
From the sunkissed shores of Staten Island to the rock-bound coast of The Bronx, New York City voters went to the polls last week to vote in a primary election. One hoodlum was shot to death, a score were slugged and when the ballots were counted the local Republican leader had been ousted, the Democratic chief went hopping out of Tammany Hall to do plain & fancy fence-mending, the Fusion party had a bad scare thrown into it from the White House. Not since the days of "Red Mike'' Hylan had the political affairs of the nation...
...late C. E. Davies and other Ballard Vale, Mass, gunners, Editor Foster among them, had hit on its basic idea. Ordinary trapshooting, with the gunner firing always from the same position, seemed too static to them. They wanted something more like real hunting. On the grounds of the Glen Rock Kennels they traced a great circle, set up a trap outside it, then moved around the circle potting the flying targets from all angles...