Word: tinned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fight for breath in a sea of advertisements for hosiery, automobiles, and canned soup. "Liberty", in spite of its attempts at publicity, sells only one copy to every three of the "Saturday Evening Post", although it leads the other prominent weeklies, the "Nation" and the "New Republic", those two tin pins sticking into the fleshy side of conservatism...
...ladies foregathered, chose up sides. Each lady was then allotted one club, shape and style determined by drawing slips of paper from a hat. The teams crowded around the first tee as their rival captains prepared to drive. Suddenly a premeditated bedlam broke loose. Ladies hooted, screamed, blew tin whistles, danced, threw clubs in air, did their utmost to superinduce inaccuracy among the opposition. Nothing save outright mayhem was barred. The match (two-ball) continued, team members shooting in rotation, regardless of allotted implements. The bedlam continued with increasing fury; no lady was spared. The ninth green found the contestants...
...comprising Singapore, Penang and Malacca, news came last week that the local British administration derives some ?2,500,000 ($12,150,000) annually from opium revenues. Opium, called locally chandu, was reported on sale at $8 an ounce, in "smoke parlors" operated by the government, whereas the government imports tin drug from China for less than $1 an ounce. During 1925 almost $300 000 was spent by the government in building new and more luxurious "smoke parlors" which are now reported in full blast. The natives, accustomed to chandu, apparently feel no more than a slight "head...
...Davis puddled along in Sharon, Pa., and in Birmingham, Ala.; then he went to work in the tin-plate mill of William B. Leeds and Daniel G. Reid at Elwood, Ind. Three things began to happen to him in this town of 1,500 souls: 1) He became wealthy: his pay at the tin mill was good; he saved money; he backed his good and enterprising friends in activities from oil speculation to running newspapers; later he became an investment banker in Pittsburgh. 2) He became a member of the Loyal Order of Moose. There have been loyal Moose before...
...spirit communication since the Fox sisters first mystified the world by snapping the joints in their toes? Radio broadcasting, in the last twenty years, has advanced to the stage of a loudspeaker in every home; but spirits are still forced to knock timidly on tables and moan through tin trumpets as they have always done. The interest of such clever men as Lodge and Conan-Doyle has been useless. Something must be done about it. The American people will not stand for poor service and antiquated equipment...