Word: sock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ambassador Judah never before held public office higher than a seat in the Illinois assembly. He has never felt that his Republican sentiments required him to admire Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, who labeled Mr. Judah a "silk sock" when the latter managed an anti-Thompson primary campaign. Senator Charles Samuel Deneen of Illinois has been the Judah patron. He introduced the bemedaled* lawyer-soldier to Washington last year and President Coolidge was impressed. Colonel Judah, onetime Assistant Chief of Staff of the Rainbow Division, is a director of the Chicago Title and Trust Co. and an alumnus-trustee...
Most spectacular of the smashing, thundering, rumbling, banging, whizzing, screeching demonstrations was the night sniping by a battery of automatically-aimed 3-inch "archies" at 27-foot sock-shaped targets towed 1,200 yards behind bombing planes more than two miles aloft. Giant searchlights picked out the "socks". Machine gun tracer bullets streaked aloft. White flowers with angry red centres blossomed abruptly and faded where shrapnel burst in the sky. A direct hit of the last target's towline ended the show. Experts pronounced the anti-aircraft marksmanship the best yet achieved...
...Still in his 30's, son of a Scotch Presbyterian minister, Inventor Baird has won the esteem of Science after overcoming the inventor's traditional obstacles, poor health and poverty. After the War, he was on the way to financial independence with a patent waterproof sock. Illness wrecked his plans. His television experiments, begun in 1912, were long pursued in garrets with the homeliest of apparatus?bicycle sprockets, bull's-eye lenses, biscuit tins, cardboard, string, sealing...
...Sock 'im buddy...
...with malice afore-thought, inflicted damage to his big brother's nose, to the cost of $1000. This was all done by means of making the Princeton players familiar with the outlines of Jim Braden's nose from photographs, blue-prints and blackboard drawings. "Whenever you see that nose, sock it", the young gentlemen from Princeton were instructed...