Word: spike
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army went out of its way last week to spike grisly rumors that fantastic numbers of U.S. soldiers have been dreadfully maimed. Brig. General Fred W. Rankin, chief consultant in surgery, reported: 1,194 soldiers have had limbs amputated;* 68 of these have lost two limbs. Rankin added, "There was not a single triple amputation nor was there a single quadruple, or so-called 'basket type' of case...
Parlay. In Oakland, Calif., Reporter "Spike" Kelly picked up a dollar blown into his office by a gale, bet it on a horse, got back $18.50, told the story to Reporter Earl de Soto, who wrote it for a magazine, was paid $2, bet it on a horse, got back...
...year wrestling match (in one corner, Oxford's short, spike-bearded, self-assured Sir William Alexander Craigie; in the other, American speech) reached its final bell last week. "Wullie" Craigie had at last finished his Dictionary of American English on Historial Principles, from Volume I's A (New England's brand letter for adulteresses) to the new Volume IV's ZuZu (nickname for the Civil War Zouaves...
Favorite hour for such personals is The Farmer's Noon Hour (12-1 p.m., daily, M.W.T.). This program is filled with everything from recordings of Spike Jones and His City Slickers to the Minneapolis wheat futures and protein premiums. Farmers and grain-elevator operators get the latest prices by radio during the hour. And recently the county treasurer at Havre sent a message to motorists that his supply of 1944 automobile plates was exhausted, and would they please lay off coming to town until he got some more...
This irreverent headline in Chicago's Britain-baiting Tribune had to be decoded for Sir William Craigie when he reached the Midwest's capital in 1925. The "Limey prof," a shy, spike-bearded little Scotsman, was charmed. That was the kind of talk he had come to the U.S. to codify; No one could question his fitness for the job. One of the world's great linguists, he was co-editor of the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, for which monumental task he was knighted...