Word: tarring
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...possible were in truth not much better than slaves. Shanghaied by a pressgang, crammed into noisome quarters, half-starved on verminous victuals, paid a pittance, rarely allowed shore liberty, liable to a flogging at an officer's whim, condemned to this servitude for years on end, a British tar's lot was not a happy one. "To be flogged was to be tortured. The first stroke laid on by a brawny boatswain's mate, as hard as he could at the full length of his arm, would always jerk an involuntary 'Ugh!' out of even...
Sharpest reversals came to undefeated, untied teams. A record crowd of 46,000 sat chilled in Durham as North Carolina's Tar Heels, odds-on favorites, were throttled 25-10-0 by Duke's already twice-beaten eleven. Smothered 2740-0 was Syracuse by thrice-defeated Colgate. Third leader to be toppled was Marquette, by Pop Warner's deceptive Temple team...
Commissioner Valentine of the New York Police made a fiery speech to his department on Wednesday. "We want to tar the collars and dirty up the fancy shirts of a few of these mugs who hang around the night spots," he explained. "I think a lot of them are going to resist arrest, and there'll be many a black eye in the morning...
...Mississippi last month huge bolts of open-mesh cotton fabric were unrolled, like a mile-long rug, on the new road between Greenville and Scott, under the eyes of 400 engineers, farmers and Federal bureaucrats, including Manager Oscar Johnston of AAA's Cotton Pool. The cotton, fixed by tar. is laid between the clay and gravel base and the asphalt surfacing. It acts as a binder, prevents stretching and cracking. Extra cost of the binder is $750 per mile, which, experiments in other States show, should be returned later by decreased maintenance bills. Cotton men believe that when highway...
...avoid photographers. Babe Ruth sat in the Press box with a white carnation in his buttonhole. In Detroit, Matthew Golden, of Old Saybrook, Conn., proudly announced that he was 72 and had not missed a game since 1903. In Chicago, one George Alms slept on the sidewalk in a tar-paper bag to keep his place at the head of a ticket line. It was the "World Series," between the Chicago Cubs and the Detroit Tigers, for the professional baseball championship of the U. S. Before it was over it had set three records for events of its kind...