Word: slop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...allowed to keep any personal effects. They are given rough underwear, "hickory" shirt, brogan shoes, socks, gray coat and pants (stripes are no longer used). Their cells, 7 ft. x 3 ft., 3 in. x 6 ft., 7 in., get no sunlight and contain only a cot, iron slop bucket, tin cup, electric bulb. Letter paper, books and newspapers can be obtained at the proper times...
...arising gong sounds at 6 a. m. The parade to the open sewer to dump the slop buckets begins at 6:30. Then breakfast, and the working day from 8 to 4, with an hour off for lunch. From 4 to bedtime, the convict has his fun-baseball, gabbing, movies, reading. Most escapes are attempted during this period...
...page of history turned. The gunboats could have raked Hankow, the marines could have shot down the mob-but an idea spiked the guns. John Chinaman, slop emptier, had bluffed the white...
...employment of its surplus profit of ?150,000 to found the present Victoria and Albert Museum, in London. Throughout his life he exhibited a passion for developing British industry which vented itself even upon such details as persuading individual crockery makers to improve the design of their slop-jars. The meeting progressed to a climax in which Lord Balfour thanked Edward of Wales for presiding. Pompously the session adjourned into a procession through the city. Behind, at the old Sheldonian, a leering-visaged ghost lurked, perhaps, the ghost of Benjamin Disraeli, near-supplanter of "Dear Albert" in Victoria...
...strangle hold upon the gullet of the American people. Even those of us who submit most tamely to the ignominy of self-service feel vaguely alarmed at the increasingly rapid disappearance of the waiter from our modern times. Obviously something must be done about it; and as we slop coffee over an ill-balanced tray we wonder what...