Word: shin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shin-Plaster...
...question dates from July 17, 1862, not from March 4, 1909, which is merely the date of a recodification. The act was intended to prevent private competition with the fractional paper currency in denominations less than one dollar, which the government was then issuing, which were commonly called "shin-plasters." It still serves a useful purpose in preventing the flooding of the country with quasi currency issued by individuals or corporations, but it has no application to a person who draws an ordinary check on his bank account for a sum of less than one dollar...
...cricket ball, watching their more athletic colleagues play the youngsters of the Royal Naval College. The cadet eleven ginined happily in their spotless white flannels and played close. They had just caught a grizzled Lieutenant-Commander leg-before-wicket, and the present batsmen, for all their massive shin guards and bushy eyebrows, seemed easy. Suddenly at a whispered word from the sidelines the long-white-coated umpire stopped the game and announced...
White chinned Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré, facing the facts, insisted that the agreement be ratified at once, as written, without reservation. Like bilious children avoiding bitter physic, the Deputies fought against ratification and used the issue as excuse to shin-kick the Poincaré cabinet. Meeting outside to Chamber, both the Finance Committee and the Committee on Foreign Affairs voted to ratify the debt agreement provided that a reservation was inserted making France's payments to the U. S. conditional on Germany's payments to France under the Young plan. Patiently Premier Poincaré reiterated that this...
Chicago. Wearing a pair of socks monogrammed across the shin with his name, "because one of my friends in North Carolina gave them to me"; jostled, huzzahed, jeered, cheered, gaped at, the Nominee spent three days in pandemonstrative Chicago. Cartoonist John Tinney McCutcheon drew a picture in the Chicago Tribune of an elephant looking down from a window on the crowd-banked Smith parade, and saying: "It's lucky for me that eagerness to see him doesn't mean eagerness to vote for him." That night the crowds burned bonfires of Chicago Tribunes in the middle of Michigan...