Word: spot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Indiana, where Candidate Watson's local machine had been shockingly exposed as corrupt and Klan-ridden. Cartoonist John Tinney McCutcheon executed for the Chicago Tribune a picture entitled: "This will make the race interesting to watch," showing Candidate Hoover hot-footing it away from a spot labelled Indiana with his trousers clutched in his hands at the waist to keep them from falling down. The clutching was necessary because an article labelled "Corn Belt" had burst in two around the Hoover middle, to the glee of bystanders...
Sticking pins into a map of China became last week a more exciting game than many another. A big black-headed pin was appropriate to pierce the spot where a high Chinese official had his nose cut off and his eyes gouged out. Only a shining white-headed pin would do to show where a U. S. doctor was shot down trying to save some Chinese young women from rape. Finally a whole packet of pins could have been used up on Chinese towns where bloodshed, starvation and atrocious cruelty held sway. Shrewd pinners pierced the following places as most...
...springtime in the South and Ambassador Claudel is a poet famed and, in the French sense, serious. It was full springtime and the poet-ambassador was finding travel restful after a winter of buzzy Washington. He had seen Florida. He was going next to Tennessee. In between came this spot of which he had heard so much and he was prepared to luxuriate...
...foxes seen" said the cryptic message received from Capt. Wilkins by Dr. Isaiah Bowman, director of the American Geographical Society. It meant there was no land between Point Barrow and Spitzbergen and put an end to the fond dream of a vast continent in the "blind spot" of the Arctic...
...patrons of the Plymouth writhing in their chairs. In the first act, a young boy remarks that he likes his women firm, and someone else makes a comment about the gypsy's "bust and hips". That no doubt will be cut by the censors, and except for a spot in the third act where the son of the house is seen emerging by the light of dawn from the b-droom of the gypsy, there is little indeed that ought to worry the Watch and Ward...