Word: implement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Munsey forbade smoking in all his newspaper offices. Reporters would have preferred to be denied almost any other implement of their craft, but he paid them well and they were content to bribe elevator boys to warn them of the Big Chief's approach. Occasionally, however, when they were forced to lavatories for their smoke, they would refer unpleasantly to the Mohican Chain Stores, and among younger men the impression got about that Frank A. Munsey was the world's greatest grocery man, and a newspaper man only by grace of tin cans. Had they never heard the big story...
...spirit of generosity or mischief, gives the garden rake to the neighbors, it is a simple enough matter for the father to drop in on them after supper and explain that the lad knew not what he did. If they are nice neighbors, they will surrender the implement without argument and the owner can whisk the leaves off the lawn next morning as planned. Not so simple is the Government's task of recovering its celebrated Oil Reserves, No. 1 and No. 3*, leased respectively by onetime Secretary of the Interior Fall, in a spirit commonly described as mischievous...
...opments in the U. S. There was a continuation and even a deepening of tendencies already recognized. Wheat continued to soar in one of the most sensational recoveries on record. Farmers were cheerful. Rural bankers breathed easier, and bank failures in the West were halted. Mail-order houses, farm implement people and others who sell to farmers reported a distinct turn for the better. North and middle west- ern roads were optimistic because of increased freights, not only of grain going east but heavier farmers' purchases going west. In the Atlantic states, business liquidation seemed about completed, although...
...championship tournaments. The steel shaft actually affords no advantage over the hickory; but the rapid growth of the popularity of golf was said to have forced some dishonest manufacturers to use unseasoned hickory; and the Association, after exhaustive tests, decided to approve the steel shafts, recommended by its Implement and Ball Committee, in order to eliminate the necessity of buying from unscrupulous dealers...
...found it quite easy to get around in Manhattan until he asked for a "paper knife." No one seemed to be able to supply him with what he needed. Finally he was informed that what he wanted was a "paper cutter." He was immediately relieved and carried this ivory implement about with him all day. He has been in town only a week and he has met "everyone," from Irvin Cobb to Gloria Swanson. He is so friendly and so human that it scarcely seems fair to catalog him as an English novelist...