Word: slack
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...candidate for the Presidency in 1920, drove his automobile up Fifth Avenue, in Manhattan. So rapidly did he drive, with such reckless daring, that he hit one Peter Lorenzo, a laborer, and knocked him into the air. Policemen gave chase to James M. Cox Jr., for he did not slack his pace. They fired revolvers into the air and at the fugitive. Dodging and twisting through the traffic, James Cox hurtled through Manhattan, ignoring all traffic signals, deaf to the cries of spectators and the reports of the police pistols. At last, thinking he had eluded his pursuers, James...
Colorado's I. W. W. coal strike, current since October, ended last week. Wobbly Tom Connors, strike chief, announced that a statewide ballot (the second one cast within a month) was 88% in favor of returning to work. Another Wobbly leader gave the reason: "The slack season is upon us. It is foolish to strike when the bosses can meet the demand for coal by keeping a few scabs at work...
Both sides claimed victory, though the specific points at issue during the strike still awaited judgment by the Industrial Commission. The I. W. W. pointed to the perfection of an organization through which Colorado miners can exact higher wages when the slack season ends. Also, a Federal court decision in the strike's closing days restored to the strikers the right of habeas corpus, unconstitutionally denied them when Governor William H. Adams declared parts of Colorado to be in a "state of insurrection" (TIME...
Excess Baggage. This romance of a tightrope walker proved agreeable. Vaudeville slang and another peek into the no longer private lives of stage people were foremost factors. The hitherto useless wife of the tight-rope man suddenly became a famous movie star. She went slack on her marital obligations, one of which was to stand at the stage end of the tightrope when her husband took his famed slide from the balcony. In her absence, he took the slide (in full view of the audience) and crashed. She hurried out to pick up the pieces; love bloomed anew...
...fashion. Some of the sharper babbits decided that she was laughing at the companion works of Sculptor Epstein; then they looked at their catalogs and saw, "No. 21: Weeping Woman." They turned to the bronze face again. Slowly there crept into their minds the feeling that perhaps, in her slack eyes, her gasping mouth, her anguished hands there existed in truth some climax of sorrow. Lest they should be forced to reverse their preconceived opinions of Mr. Epstein, they hurried away from the bronze figures...