Word: scalps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majestic, one day out of Southampton, broke a wave so huge that it shattered four windows on the bridge, stunned Captain Edward L. Trant, commodore of the White Star fleet, with a shower of heavy, leaded glass. When the Majestic docked in Manhattan Captain Trant, suffering from an infected scalp, was rushed ashore to a hospital. In a Mineola, L. I., court, to petition that her name be fixed once & for all, appeared Princess Xenia, daughter of the late Grand Duke George Michaelovitch of Russia, divorced wife of William Bateman Leeds. On her complaint that ''Mrs. William...
...Hyde Park was aware that General Hugh Samuel Johnson had at last cooked his goose with the President. In his speech on the textile strike week before, NRA's Johnson had denounced the strikers in such violent terms that Labor swore it would have the General's scalp. In the same address General Johnson sealed his official doom, as far as the President was concerned, when he said: "During the whole intense [NRA] experience I have been in constant touch with that old counselor, Judge Louis Brandeis. As you know, he thinks that anything that...
...table of the House lay the legislative assembly's official mace. Over the Speaker's dais was a canopy surmounted by a wooden figure of the British lion. Over the mace was what Commodore Chauncey, who had ferried Pike's men across the Lake, called a scalp. It was the Speaker's wig. The raiders took them all, as well as the royal standard flying over the Governor's house...
Coach Eddie Farrell and his triumphant speedsters, who are now hard at work preparing to scalp the Hanover Indians on Saturday, may have some representatives in the National Collegiates to be held on the West Coast sometime in June...
...question of whether an individual has cheated on his income tax return is part of a general policy provoked by the fear of administrative officers here that Congress or the accusations of critics will bear down on them if they happen to exonerate some wealthy individual for whose scalp said critics have been clamoring. The situation has been frankly confessed by the administration as being due entirely to the criticism that arises whenever a "big fellow" escapes jail on his income tax return...