Word: toe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Surprisingly large number of men take their meals during the first hour of dinner, a check of the House dining rooms revealed yesterday. The survey apparently blasted the theory that the hours should be shifted to accommodate large numbers of men who prefer toe eat at a later hour...
...Most Episcopalians are unsympathetic with Dr. Cummins' notions, unimpressed by the horrors he cries up. But they read the "Chronic Hell" with delight, enjoying the loving care with which copes & mitres, red zucchettas, masses, rosaries and the beard of King Charles I are castigated.* Some bishops apprehensively toe the Protestant line when Dr. Cummins, on one of his many preaching excursions, appears in their dioceses...
...sporting a cane and favoring a swollen ankle should evoke no surprise if one considers the rigors of a Ping Pong tournament. Technical parlance for the damaging manoeuvre is said to be "Reaching for a wide one." There is no substance to the rumor that Professor Baxter stubbed his toe on a copy of the "Ironclad Battleship...
...names, weights, decisions, to the crowd. He had got soaked when showers fell during the matches. He sank into a troubled sleep. Before daylight he woke, blinked into the darkness, tried to turn over, made the terrifying discovery that he could not move so much as a finger or toe...
...view of General Nagaoka's mustache, like a view of Fujiyama, was an honor accorded all distinguished visitors. The Lindberghs were photographed beside it. In full bloom it stretched over 20 inches from tip to tip, one-third as much as the General spanned from top to toe. Last week Gaishi Nagaoka, 75, died of bladder trouble in Keio University Hospital in Tokyo. According to the Japanese law his body was washed and prepared for cremation. But not his white plume, not his badge of honor. To his death bed came his son and reverently clipped the mustaches away...