Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thomas B. Love, a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Texas, who said: "As between chronic corruption and acute corruption, I prefer the acute. I want strongly to turn the rascals out, but I am just as strongly opposed to turning Tammany Hall in. I intend definitely to vote against Smith. ... As long as I live I am going to stay in the Democratic party...
Some 800 Negroes lined up at a coal mine office in Flattop, Ala., last week, to turn in their lamps and shovels. They were the last convicts in the U. S. whose labor had been sold by the State to private interests. Work for the State on convict farms and highways awaited them...
...Manager Harris of Washington sent Goslin lame-armed into left field, told Shortstop Reeves to run out and help him re-turn his catches. Perhaps Goslin's bad arm had keyed up his batting, some followers suggested; most agreed that he was hitting beyond his real abilities-no one could be as good as .414. As a superior player critics pointed to Rogers ("Rajah") Hornsby, manager, second baseman of the Braves, leading the National League at bat with an average close to .400. Some sporting writers, fond of big words, spoke of him as a genius, others, with...
...figured in the ballyhoo. The Floranada Club had offered to him a house with "cool rooms overlooking tropical gardens," if he would buy a plot of ground in the community. Among the questions asked Promoter Cromwell by the bankruptcy lawyers was: "Had you ever considered that the King might turn the place into a Greek restaurant...
Rich and varied was the aeronautical menu. Detroit offered something sure to please guests of every age and every turn of mind, commercial, military, technical, sporting, juvenile...