Word: tip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...solace of many a dowager at Paris is the ubiquitous gigolo, a male who lurks in smart dancing places and is ready, for a modest tip, to offer gallantries to ladies whose age or ugliness induces them to buy what others can command...
...longstanding fight of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters to elevate their profession from a status of menial service, for which the traveling public gives condescending "tips," was lost last week. The Interstate Commerce Commission refusing to command the Pullman Co. to prohibit tipping, interpreted the porters' plea as an effort to elevate something besides the status of their profession. "A consideration of the complaint in all its aspects," said the Commission, "leads only to the conclusion that the real objectives sought are increased wages. . . ." The Commission, as every interstate employer knows, has no power to regulate wages...
Robed and stately sheiks of the Arabian plateau gathered, last week, to imprint loud, smacking kisses of fealty on the tip of their potent Sultan's nose. The monarch thus saluted was Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, bronzed and stalwart Sultan of Nejd, King of the Hejaz. He subjects his nose to kisses, instead of receiving bows of homage, because his subjects are of a fanatically orthodox Moslem sect, the Wahabi, and hold that the pious should bow only to Allah. Last week the Sultan and his devout Sheiks were persistently reported to have launched a "Holy War." Menaced areas...
...Last week she climbed onto the wing of a plane, 15,000 feet in the air, and let go. Her parachute caught on the plane and she faced certain death until Dr. R. L. Ellis, her pilot, brought the ship safely to earth on one wheel and a wing tip, leaving her safe, grateful...
...know more about horned toads, I reckon, than any man in Texas, both inside and out. I have mounted everything from a humming bird to a Texas steer with horns eight feet long from tip to tip...