Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week, approximately 5,000,000 citizens gingerly unfolded crisp new income tax blanks, racked perplexed brains while they tried to figure how much they owed of the $1,700,000,000 total Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon expects.* Some, puzzling over the instructions, were gripped by despair, saw the five-year prison terms and $10,000 fines provided in Section 28 of the Instructions for false or delayed returns, staring them in the face. Most will not find the burden overheavy The $30 a week clerk will find his contribution somewhat less than a dollar; married bricklayers or newspaper correspondents...
...side of the Great Lakes, last week, unwilling citizens of a Prohibition regime looked towards the promised land of Canada, saw it more promising still. Fat U. S. bootleggers chuckled over the prospect of a new source of whiskeys and fine wines; Wet U. S. Congressmen watched with interest. In the legislature of the Province of Ontario before crowded and expectant galleries, Premier Ferguson introduced his bill to do away with the present liquor laws* and substitute others based on the limited franchise laws of Ontario's sister province, Quebec. He faced an enthusiastic dripping Wet majority triumphantly elected last...
...Sophoclean style strikes a compromising note equally removed from the grandiose sublimity of his predecessor and from the freer and more popular handling of the theme in the plays of Euripides. At 12 o'clock today, in Sever 26, Professor Gulick will speak of the tragic poet "who saw life steadily and saw it whole...
When Sheik, the Haiti's white tomcat, saw the dove, it made him feel like a tomcat. He was not hungry, but only the tip of his tail was moving when he flattened himself for a precisely accurate spring. Knocking the feathers out of his whiskers, glancing around, he lifted the warm kill in his mouth. Its pretty head dragged stupidly as he picked his way to a cubby hole and hid it. Sheik licked a paw neat, stretched himself, stalked...
When Wireless Operator Collins saw feathers and found what was in the cubby hole, he felt more than ever like God. He hunted Sheik, who arched against his leg as usual, purring in mad anticipation of a caress. He carried Sheik to the wireless room, muttering. He arranged some wires, glared at the "murderer" and loosed the lightning of righteousness. It was Omnipotence to swing the white corpse by its tail and hurl it at the sky, a falling thing in the wide heavens, a pitching clot for the sharks...