Word: tinned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact it threatens to become a real American art. Mr. Dooley will be forced to give up the magazines completely. "What I object to", he says, "is whin I pay tin or fifteen cents for a magazine, expectin' to spind me avenin' improvin' me mind with the latest thoughts in advertising, to find more thin a quatter of the book devoted to literachoor". He could already find some literature in the advertisements. There is poetry in the line "meaty marrowy oxtail joints" used to describe a well-known soup. A prose rhythm of unusual smoothness is discovered in an automobile...
...Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of America, in convention at Warren, Ohio, was addressed by a member of 30 years' standing-the United States Secretary of Labor, James J. Davis...
...much-heralded appearance was more suggestive of a butterfly or moth. Yet there is no telling what secret ammunition may have been brought in; already there are rumors that a more penetrating criticism, from the same source, is about to be let loose. The game of setting up little tin gods and clay-footed idols to knock over is not particularly dangerous, and it has a certain virtue in putting the small players in trim for larger struggles. To undergraduate onlookers,' the present batters at Yale and Dartmouth keep their proper proportions. But outsiders are more gullible; finding that...
...conditions. According to statistics covering the Second Reserve District contained therein, since the " trough " of the recent depression to the pres-ent time production has gained 54%, employment 23%, wholesale trade 31%, retail trade 13% and bank loans 32%. Marked price advances have been seen in pig iron, copper, tin, lead, cotton, print cloth, raw sugar and even corn...
...northwest wood, good cooks and wives are scarce. We have lots of females that can feed one from tin cans from the grocery, the Buster Brown haircut kind, high-heeled, beauteous, automobile vamps and dance hall microbes but what we want, sir, are just plain women...