Word: rollered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flea Cousin Charlie has been taught to push about an infinitesimal ball. Flea Napoleon trudges along with a small wire cannon in tow. Flea Reuben tugs a roller. Prompted with a bit of broom straw, Napoleon, Reuben and Cousin Charlie are encouraged to race. There are, in addition, six dancing fleas. Rudolf from Hapsburg operates a tiny carousel, but one suspects that the Professor's favorite is "Caesar and his Roman chariot...
...Olympic team in 1928. Since then Ray's achievements have diminished, but not his confidence nor his odd, insistent courage. He competed in C. C. Pyle's second transcontinental footrace, lost a six-day race against a horse in Philadelphia. He tried prizefighting, long-distance roller-skating, driving a taxi (his first profession). Last winter he strapped snowshoes on his serviceable feet and finished seventh in the three-day snowshoe race from Quebec to Montreal. Last week reporters were not much surprised when they found Joie Ray in a Newark, N. J. dancehall, where a marathon dance had been going...
...probably killed more buffaloes than any other firearm. The company was one of the pioneers in the popular .22 rifle field, has also been a big maker of ammunitions. Since the War. Winchester's fortunes have fallen. It tried to beat guns into fishing tackle, roller and ice skates, cutlery, flashlights. It tried even to enter the chainstore business through purchase of Simmons Hardware Co. in 1922. Last winter it was unable to pay a bill owed to Thomas Albert Dwight ("Tad") Jones, Yale's longtime football coach, a coal dealer. On Jan. 22 the great Winchester Repeating Arms...
...ribbons tied by a bow marked the centre of the span and the boundary of two sovereign States. Governor Roosevelt grasped one end of the bow, Governor Larson the other. The ribbons parted. A police lieutenant fell on his face, in a heart attack. A patrolman fainted. Two schoolboys roller-skated across the bridge from the Manhattan side, the first passengers from New York. A New Jersey woman pushed her baby carriage to Manhattan, first passenger from her State. The bridge was open...
...former company with Silent Automatic Corp., big maker of oilburners, whose president, Walter F. Tant, will have a large financial interest in the new company, help in sales policies. Timken-Detroit Co. was a subsidiary of Timken-Detroit Axle Co. which has no corporate relationship to the roller bearing company...