Word: slotted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Convention City is adumbrated with many a drinking scene, a company song ("Oh. Honeywell" to the tune of "My Maryland"), and some quips which may cause some cinemagoers to wonder what Will Hays is doing. Typical sequence: a drunk loudly advocating that "Our merchandise be placed in slot machines on every corner, in case of emergency" only to discover that he is in the wrong convention. Flying Down to Rio (RKO). In the current cycle of musicomedies there are three major types: 1) elaborate revues, with plots based on backstage activities or neo-Freudian dreams, like Roman Scandals; 2) naive...
After deep study I find that Yale's Rankin' players will attempt to drop enough Nikkles in the slot to register a Blue victory, but the Curtins will fall and the esteemed Caseymen will win by the score of 12-7. Game will be close, but Casey will get to the Root of the matter. I repeat, a 12-7 victory for Harvard...
...problem is City of Sacred Cod. Some say Parkman is best candidate in any Mansfield, but others are Foley convinced it will be survivor of Fighting Irish trio of Foley, Sullivan, and Eleven-reasons O'Connell. Then, too, there is the chance of people dropping lead Nichols in the slot today, but the ex-G.G.A. Man's going to lead the Field...
...announcement that Boylston Library will now be kept open on Sundays should over joy concentrators in History, Government or Economics. But of wider interest is the plan to make possible the return of reserved books between midnight and nine o'clock through a slot in a side door of the building. Both these reforms, coming in the prime of the academic year, call to mind once more the disheartening state of affairs in the main library of the University, and suggest to even the blandest observer a number of desirable changes...
...races are as honest, if not more so, than horse races, and proof of this can be had. Bettors wager on horse and dog races upon such facts as breeding, form, past performances, condition of track, weather, distances, etc. Who ever heard of playing a slot machine or buying a lottery ticket on such knowledge? Then why even lead people to think badly of dog racing, or at least include horse racing, as long as it is so evident the writer is not well informed on the actual present day facts...