Word: slotted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...facilities. Checking systems should be established in the Houses, perhaps with automatic checking-racks installed. These racks are similar to those in railway station restaurants, with the coat held between two bars; as the bars are clamped together a metal check is pushed out, which is inserted in the slot to remove the coat. The expense of these racks would be small compared to the annual loss from stolen coats...
...Perhaps my Lords are not aware that contraceptives are already sold in slot-machines like cigarets or candy. Garages also sell them as part of the inducement to hiring a motor car - so I have been informed...
...Manhattan, spurred to clean-up pitch by Mayor LaGuardia's zealous reform administration, police corralled scores of petty gamblers, slot machine & punchboard operators. Last week at Louis Gitlan's candy store, zealous Policeman Isadore Newman dropped 25 pennies in a game of bagatelle (shooting marbles from a plunger into numbered holes on a sloping board). On his 25th try, he won 5? worth of candy, arrested Louis Gitlan for owning a gambling device. "All luck." charged Plunger Newman. Asked the Court: "As a matter of fact ... as you continued to play you got better and better...
...making contraceptives of one sort or another. Peddlers hawk material on subway platforms. A 1932 survey of western Florida showed that one form of contraceptive was being sold in 376 gasoline stations, garages, restaurants, soda fountains, barber shops, pool rooms, cigar stands, news stands, shoe shine parlors, grocery stores. Slot machines for dispensing exist in several states. Contraceptives are now advertised in such magazines as Outdoor Life, Eagle Magazine, Illustrated Mechanics and Locomotive Engineers' Journal...
...sink or swim. But thanks to the exploratory works of critics, and notably such an exegetical commentary as Stuard Gilbert's James Joyce's Ulysses (TIME, Jan. 5, 1931),! the plain reader can now literally find out what Ulysses is all about. Lacking the sleuth-nose, the slot-trained paws of scholarship, even an intelligent reader will miss much the first time over the ground. At that, however, the main outlines of the story are plain...