Word: scoopful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sugar-scoop coat or high hat clothed Lord Lothian. To the confusion of protocol, he wore a black pin-stripe business suit, a loosely knotted dark tie, black bump-toed shoes, glasses with light grey plastic rims, a grey Homburg hat. He pushed open the right-hand door to the Executive offices (the left is always locked), walked over the black-and-white checkered linoleum, around the Philippine red narra table and back to the President's office. He gave his hat to Pat McKenna, ancient doorguard, and walked...
...story of how G-Man Hoover caught Lepke did not come out until 24 hours later, and then it was a clean scoop for the Daily Mirror's, Columnist Walter Winchell, who dearly loves to play cops. One night about three weeks ago a mysterious voice hissed to Winchell over the telephone: "Lepke wants to come...
...tongued sunbeam of Painted Desert." His favorite anecdote surrounds his biggest moment: the day in 1912 when a Senate expecting to see an Arizona Senator sworn in wearing cowboy chaps, high-heeled boots and bandanna, was dazzled at the resplendent perfection of a tall gentleman impeccably garbed in sugar-scoop coat, striped trousers, wing collar, sawed-off vest and ribboned pince-nez. "I mowed them down," chuckles Ashurst...
...lead pencil, said he, L. & N. (a lucky, coal-hauling road) must haul 1,887 pounds of average freight one mile; to buy one track bolt, eleven tons. Other figures: one typewriter, 11,552 tons; one brakeman's lantern, 162; one fireman's coal scoop...
...Washington photographic studios of Harris & Ewing one morning last month went nine Negro messengers bearing long black robes, nine dignified gentlemen in long black cars. The occasion was the annual official portrait of the U. S. Supreme Court. Released last week (see cut), it was a photographic scoop for Harris & Ewing, which has taken all the official Court pictures since Charles Evans Hughes became Chief Justice in 1930. Harris & Ewing's dignified Chief Photographer William Whipple Campbell is opposed to enlarging the Supreme Court because nine men make a better picture...