Word: sackful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Little Entente, owl-eyed Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, new Chancellor of Austria, arrived in Florence for an interview like those that Benito Mussolini and the late Engelbert Dollfuss used to hold. At the railway station Il Duce met his guest in an all-purpose costume consisting of brown sack suit, riding boots and yachting cap. Most of his staff, during a lull in their enforced tour of duty with the troops, were still in uniform. A gay note was the guard of honor, dressed in 14th Century Florentine helmets and breastplates and carrying not Fascist banners, but the ancient white fleur...
When locusts began to swarm over the wheat fields of Argentina last fortnight, the Minister of Agriculture was ready with a plan. He proposed to pay eight centavos (2½¢) to anybody who could fill a 100-lb. sack with locusts, bring them to the Government to be soaked in gasoline and buried...
...went to an Armonk, N. Y. clansman named George Ross, after the caber had been sawed down several times so contestants could balance it. Further prizes were awarded to the best-dressed piper; the best-dressed lady in Highland costume; the best Highland flingers; winners at soccer, high-jumping, sack-racing and novice piping...
Miss P. Belle Kessinger of Pennsylvania State College pulled a rat out of a warm, leaded-silk sack, noted that it had died of lead poisoning, and proceeded to Manhattan. There last week she told the American Home Economics Association that leaded silk garments seem to her potentially poisonous. Her report alarmed silk manufacturers who during the past decade have sold more than 100,000,000 yards of leaded silk without a single report of anyone's being poisoned by their goods. Miss Kessinger's report also embarrassed Professor Lawrence Turner Fairhall, Harvard chemist, who only two years...
Miss Kessinger, who doubted Professor Fairhall's results, made some little sacks of leaded silk. Into each sack she tied a rat and kept it there with only its head exposed for an hour a day. At first she perceived no changes. Then rapidly the rats' skins became irritated. One rat died. And Miss Kessinger became bold enough to question the professor's dictum...