Word: twister
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...midweek the twister of trouble moved a few miles north to Woonsocket, R. I. (pop. 50,000). Behind a barrage of bricks which left the main street in darkness, some 500 picketers charged the Woonsocket Rayon Co.'s mill just before midnight. Militia advanced on the shadowy mob with fixed bayonets, fired two volleys. Four figures went down in the dark, one to rise no more...
Your idea of having a questionnaire (TIME, Jan. 22) is commendable on the whole, but after spending days cramming for impending Midyears, looking forward to the weekly relaxation of TIME-reading, it is most distressing to find one's-self confronted with one more brain-twister; voluntary, hence the more binding. TIME-reading becomes a response to a challenge. ... I am not in the best of humors, thanks...
...BIRD CAGE-Eimar O'Duffy- Kinsey ($2). Disappearance and murder in an English tavern lead to the killing of an investigator, but the twister is trapped...
...cash and $500 worth of meerschaum pipes, traveling bags, fountain pens, gold-plated razor, platinum bar pin, imitation pearls, watches, rings, fruit cake and turkey, in limerick, missing last line, humorous anecdote, commodity description, guessing the number of needles or pennies in a jar, jingle, tongue-twister, anagram and punchboard contests. He has won three Funniest-Story-I-Ever-Heard contests with the following: "So you and your father know everything? Well, what's the capital of Africa...
...damages from 31 companies and 33 agents. One day last October, The Man Who Sued Coolidge tuned his radio to hear a speech on insurance by the former President of the U. S. His blood boiled when Mr. Coolidge nasally warned: "Beware of the so-called 'twister' and 'abstractor' or any agent who offers to save money for you by replacing your policy in another company." Saying his reputation was injured, Agent Tebbetts filed a $100,000 libel suit against Mr. Coolidge...