Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...life on a farm in Huntington, Ohio. His first real job was peddling lightning rods, parlor organs and dinner bells to farmer-neighbors. In 1903 he was elected Governor of the state; his Lieutenant-Governor was convivial Warren Gamaliel Harding. Ap- pointed Ambassador to France by President Taft, some trick of fate made the tall, handsome Ohioan look more Parisian than most boulevard flaneurs. The French took him to their hearts. Never a retiring violet, his theatrical sense of diplomacy made him a hero on three occasions...
...seemed last week as though a mid-western cyclone had swooped upon the normally quiet campus of the University of Missouri. President Stratton Duluth Brooks stormed about "a fool trick without authorization of administrative forces." Irate alumni demanded student, even faculty expulsions. In St. Louis, Representative Robert F. Miller demanded a thorough investigation...
...Story. Joan was a landlubber- for the first eleven months of her life. After that she went aboard her father's four-masted windjammer, a copra-trading schooner in the South Seas, and stayed there until she could stand her trick at the wheel, pull on the ropes, man the pumps, spit, and cuss with the hardest of shellbacks. After an initial mishap with plug tobacco, she "chawed dried prunes which made grand spit," and spit two successful curves on a single windy day. Aged seven, she further qualified as able-bodied seaman by swearing, without repeating herself...
...Russian Turkestan, Great Leo Davidovich Trotsky returned, last week, toward the civilized world. With him traveled his wife and son, glad to end a bitter exile (TIME, Jan. 30, 1928). But in European Communist centres it was feared that Trotsky's release from banishment was a trick and prophets croaked that he would be "accidentally" killed en route...
...That designation delighted Newark's Mayor Jerome T. Congleton, who leaves no trick unturned to advance the importance of his city as a sea and air port, as a railroad terminal...