Word: striping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Black Legion, wearing cheap black & white robes and hoods, held a solemn conclave. Present were two relatives of the wife of a 32-year-old WPA worker named Charles Poole. They reported that Charles Poole was a wife-beater. "Let's beat him up!" "Let's stripe him!" cried the Black Legionaries. Some, more bloodthirsty, screamed: "Let's hang...
...hell-for-leather style of play which employed plenty of passes of all kinds, sweeps and power plays, lots of deception. Emerging into the national sportlight like a whole league of Centre Colleges, the Southwest Conference this year produced not one but a pair of teams of championship stripe. Among a coeducational student body of less than 1,000, Texas Christian's Coach Leo Robert (''Dutch") Meyer had discovered a squad which remained unbeaten and untied for ten games. A Texas Christian graduate, Dutch Meyer was commercially hardheaded enough to observe upon taking over his job year...
...knitting bee caused no trouble even when the judges awarded one of the six prizes to a man. He was bald, tidy, dignified John Farnum Cann. His contribution - all the knitters made little chunks which were later pinned together in a large U. S. flag - was a red stripe...
...Prince of WALES'S morning-dress is either a chestnut-brown, or a bottle-green cloth coat, with a fancy-stripe waistcoat, and light stone-colour musquito pantaloons. The coat is made short in the waist and the skirts, without pockets or flaps, with a silk or covered button of the same colour; the cape or collar is made to sit close around the neck, with a becoming fall in front, which shows a small portion only of the waistcoat. The lower part of the lappel is not cut in the usual vulgar manner, but forms an elegant slope...
...Geraldine Farrar was "not interested" in the man she married in 1916, divorced in 1923. The Tellegen interlude, she claimed long ago, left only "a surface scar," "a single service stripe" in a vividly striped career. Besides, last week she was busy with other plans which would once again bring her name and her voice to millions of music-lovers. When the New York opera season begins in December, she will be back at the Metropolitan?not singing on the stage, but in a grandtier box on Saturday afternoons broadcasting descriptions of the operas which...