Word: sock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When F. D. R. you want to sock, Page Lippmann, Johnson, Kent or Krock...
...went to Scotland in 1706 to spy out political sentiment for his secret master, Secretary of State Robert Harley, he improved his time by picking up believe-it-or-not tales of a bridge over a dry river (between Glasgow and Sterling), of fishermen who killed porpoises with a sock on the nose...
Without pausing to remove hat & overcoat, portly Dr. Clendening strode around to the valve and feed pipe of the air-compressor supplying the pneumatic drills. Sock! Crack! went the ax. The drills fell silent, but not Dr. Clendening. At the marveling WPAsters he roared...
Where Lou Ruppel specialized in "sock," Managing Editor Borden specializes in poise, acquired at Dartmouth (Class of 1926), Harvard (M.A.), University of Chicago, where he taught Shakespeare until he joined the Times in 1929. He was a flying fanatic until one day in 1932, when he tried to do an Immelmann turn from the ground, cracked up with two broken ankles and his face halfway through the dashboard. During his long hospital convalescence, he kept the broken instrument board at the foot of his bed, as a memento mori...
...brief but exciting term as Deputy Commissioner of Narcotics in the Treasury Department. He found a boisterous, roughhousing staff that would have driven a more timid man to despair, licked it into a fanatically loyal news machine by daily and hourly repetition of his favorite slogan: "Lots of sock...