Word: spiked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...late James Jerome Hill drove the last spike into the ties of the Northern Pacific railroad and the Atlantic coast became tied thereby to the Pacific coast by steel rails. It was a dramatic event, which kept the entire country talking. Hartford capitalized the "news" interest by renaming his company the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. In 1912 telephones were taken out of A. & P. stores. Credit and delivery privileges were no longer granted customers. These changes brought an increase in business of 65%. Three years ago the company was reincorporated as the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. of America...
...matter of fact, the title is a little bit misleading. Victor McLaglen, who, in his ususal manner cuts an impressive figure as Spike Madden, the chief mate of a merchantman, does not, exactly speaking, have a girl in every port. But at least he makes strenuous efforts--with the aid of his little address book--to find one at every place his ship drops anchor. Obviously, this quest, made fruitless by the activities of another sailor who precedes him by a day or so in each port of call, does not make for unity of plot. In fact the picture...
...main interest of the story comes when Spike meets his rival, and "the" girl--Louise Brooks. From then on the picture might well be entitled "A Text Book for Pugilistic Aspirants...
Seven snake eggs lay for seventy-seven years, sealed in a tree in Tullahoma, Tenn. Strong men came and split the tree, exposing an iron spike of the kind first used in the construction of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railroad in 1851. Around the spike was a decayed hole about five inches long, in which lay the tough, rubbery snake eggs. Having the good of Tullahoma at heart, down to the lowest snake, Mayor W. J. Davidson took the eggs to his heated office and gave them a place in the sun, atop his desk. Last week he noticed...
...editors, Raymond E. ("Spike") Delaney,* had been a police reporter on the Bridgeport Telegram. He would rob a house and return to police headquarters, hear of the same robbery, cover the story. He would re-enter the house through the front door, give the policeman suggestions concerning the crime, return to his typewriter and write a florid story. He was a good friend, almost an assistant, of Bridgeport bluecoats. When a New Haven merchant suspected him of selling stolen jewels and telephoned for a Bridgeport policeman to come down, the policeman arrived to greet Mr. Delaney like a long-lost...