Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Republicans never tire of reminding the country of the nationwide depression which occurred during the first winter (1893-94) of President Stephen Grover Cleveland's second term. Last week in Chicago, however, the shade of Grover Cleveland was invoked to help out an optimistic lottery scheme of Republican Mayor William Hale Thompson's "to set the wheels of business going within 90 days." The Thompson plan: stores in Chicago and vicinity are to give away numbered tickets-bearing the portrait of Mayor Thompson-with every 25 purchase. Those who draw the winning tickets will receive prizes amounting...
...placed in the vanity-box so they may be operated from the rear seat. . . . Duesenberg,* by Judkin, has a complete liquor cabinet. . . . Dashboards are more complicated than ever, with altimeters popular. . . . Much chromium is used on many cars. Some gold and silver plating and solid bronze are used. . . . Metal tire covers are prominent. . . . Radically modern for Brewster was a Rolls-Royce body with everything, including doors, slanting sharply backward. This Rolls-Royce cost $21,750, was the most expensive car. Next was an $18,600 Isotta. . . . Adjustable "Pullman" seats were in evidence. . . . Rugs, lap robes and pillows (some of lambskin...
...CRIMSON interviewer, noting Miss Etting's picture in the Boston newspapers, asked her if she did not tire of continued publicity...
Sudden Awakening: "Flat Tire!" In the Palais-Bourbon, imposing seat of French Deputies, foes of sly old Br'er Briand thought they had sufficiently prepared to roast him when the Chamber convened last week...
...steel industry is like a great giant tied and pulling at its shackles. It is impatient to go. And go he will within a comparatively short time." "A successful and prosperous year in 1931" was predicted by Harvey Samuel Firestone Jr., polo-playing young vice president of Firestone Tire & Rubber...