Word: tattoo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lurked a variety of "hostile" uniforms--hues of the American Legion, the Cambridge police, the anti-Red sharpshooters, the purple gown of state legislators. Nor are civilian denizens unknown. Teachers antiquated in theory and doctrine, full of fine words, but lacking research, have been glimpsed. Sometimes the Gatling-gun tattoo of a tabloid printing press has been audible, and this sound has been diagnosed by some as the basic machinery which motivates the horse so powerfully...
...underdog, Champion Ambers in the early rounds did nothing to raise his reputation. Under a tattoo of blinding punches he crumpled to the canvas at the end of the fifth round. Saved by the bell, he came out for the sixth only to be knocked down again. But at the count of 8, just as the Garden spectators and millions of radio listeners were mentally collecting their bets, Underdog Ambers clambered to his feet...
Many times the writer has stood in the wing of the bridge with his oilskins drawn tightly about him, held securely by a "body and soul" lashing, his so'wester pulled down over his eyes while the rain beat an incessant tattoo upon his face patiently waiting for eight bells to strike so that in the quiet seclusion of his room, he could have a pleasant social visit with Mark Twain, Kenneth Roberts or a glance at TIME or FORTUNE before he turned over to sleep. All this, of course, while the gale raged and howled outside his comfortable...
...words, each a separate challenge. "Preserve" "Protect" and "Defend." "SO HELP ME GOD!" he added with sacerdotal solemnity. Act IV was Franklin Roosevelt's second inaugural address, an address which presented no program, no plans but the activating sentiment of the New Deal. The rain beat a tattoo in the microphones and twice the President wiped the water from his face as he unfolded his burden: "In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens-a substantial part of its whole population-who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest...
...alike. It totally neglects to state that a large part of all the scores and individual compositions are not catalogued in Widener. And so the undergraduates, whose only means of getting acquainted with a wide variety of music is to browse at liberty among the books, beat a futile tattoo against the untold yards of red tape that bar the Widener stacks...