Word: striping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jersey to open his campaign there early next month, had dismissed Prohibition, momentarily at least, from his mind. Because his opponent Democratic Nominee Alexander Simpson is as Wet as he is, he planned not to argue the subject in his canvass. Nominee Simpson, a Wet of a different stripe, wanted to make it an issue...
After several exchanges of punts the first team had the ball on its own 25 yard stripe. Then followed in rapid succession a 25-yard Huguley to Harding forward pass and a Forbes to Batchelder lateral. Huguley and Harding then teamed up to get off another forward and then Batchelder finally carried the ball over on a 4 yard thrust...
...About its neck he perceived a peculiar red contrivance not common to deer. Puzzled, Hunter Daley took careful aim, fired. The buck dropped. "Daley approached somewhat cautiously and examined the animal. The buck was dead with a broken neck. From the deer's neck he removed the red stripe-an automobile inner tube. . . . The shot had exploded the inner tube and presumably broken the deer's neck." Investigation proved the owner of the inner tube to be a vacationer who, fortnight before, while repairing a flat tire, had been attacked by a deer, had thrown the tube...
Terminal Cab, incorporated January 1930, buys from General Motors Truck Corp. Buyer and seller alike are subsidiaries of Yellow Coach & Truck Mfg. Corp., which is in turn controlled by General Motors. Taxi gossip has it that these 955 cabs, turquoise blue with a red stripe, will shortly displace the complaining Yellows as the largest fleet in the city. Their sudden prosperity is based upon the Pennsylvania and Grand Central terminal concessions, recently wrested from Yellow Taxi Corp., and calling for 800 to 900 cabs daily...
...father before him (1876)-attacked by Dr. Wilson for supporting Smith for President. Perplexity became indignation when he read Dr. Wilson's comment: "I was not so much surprised at this, for I have a distinct recollection that his father was a Presbyterian preacher of the same stripe [who] denounced the Government of the U. S., cannonaded Lincoln and advocated the extension of slavery...