Word: stucco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...character from Cervantes is illiterate Juan March, "richest man in Spain." He rolled up to the yellow stucco Rock Hotel at Gibraltar last week with his jailer and a carload of friends, thumbed his nose at the Government of Spain and went to bed. Sallow Castilians slapped their thighs and swore that Por Dios, Juan had done it again...
...scorn was marked for the half timber & stucco dear to Milwaukee realtors...
...body, loud of lungs, went into the mines as a mule-driver. Later he mined silver in New Mexico, copper in Arizona, gold in Colorado. Smarter than most, he got a job as U. M. W. lobbyist at Springfield, 111. He still lives there in a two-story stucco house on a corner lot, with a private telephone number, a Chevrolet in the garage. In 1908 old Sam Gompers visited Springfield, spotted Lobbyist Lewis as a likely youth to serve the American Federation of Labor. After six years of chores for Gompers John Lewis attended his first...
...Washington, before 9:00 a. m. one day last week, Henry B. Sawyer, member of the advisory board of Massachusetts Investors Trust, and Trustee Merrill Griswold entered the sweltering, ramshackle, stucco-and-tar-paper building of the Federal Trade Commission. They trudged upstairs and settled down to wait before a certain door in the second-floor hall. When the door opened they marched in and delivered three bundles of documents, each describing $5,000,000 worth of securities which their company wished to issue...
...CRIMSON editorial next appeared, from which I quote the expressions ""breezy westerners, stucco and tin of World's Fairs, new city with insurgent time for tradition and family to prove their merits, unthinking natives, ignorance, bad taste, jealousy. Anglophobe tendencies" applied obviously to the westerners, and the expressions "dignity, traditions, demand for solid cultural food" applied to the author's beloved New Englanders. By these very words, the editor betrayed a prejudicial opinion. Not only did he unjustly criticize the middle west, but he did so with the typical New England snobbishness of which the Tribune spoke. He stood branded...