Word: sacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thanks in church for the birth of their Savior. They figure, however, that Santa Claus, or St. Nicholas, the patron saint of Generosity, was born on Dec. 6, do their giving then. Dutchmen conceive the Saint as a bishop whose ecclesiastic dignity is above lugging presents around in a sack. This is done by his far from humble minion, Black Peter, a capering minstrel in braided doublet, van Dyck ruff and Renaissance plumed...
...Fixed on the ground were two footplates to which a man's feet were strapped. He was then bent over a pole and his head was secured between two horizontal bars. The men received up to fifty strokes. . . . Some went mad. They were then chained up and a sack was tied around their heads to stifle their shouts...
...mercy of BBC, which furnished news in the passive mood, gramophone recordings, funereal discourses like What Happens When I Die. In the House of Commons, Laborite Arthur Greenwood groused loudly against Britain's radio "Weeping Willies"; the press clamored for Weeping Willie to be given the sack...
Another Laborite, George Griffith, called out: "Sack the lot!" Amidst more laughter Sir Edward said that Lord Macmillan, Minister of Information, recognized that "the situation requires investigation." Interrupting him, Socialist J. J. Davison shouted: "It requires evacuation!" The House cheered...
...time to sweep out the stores, sugar was going out the front doors in 100-pound orders. Customers who for years had bought from day to day and trundled purchases away in baby's perambulator carted away canned goods by the case, flour by the 50 lb. sack. The squirrel instinct was at work. With a strange reversion to the memories of World War I, U. S. housewives were building up hoards against a winter which they thought would bring high prices and short food supplies...