Word: insertion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...increase the Wet bloc in Congress by working locally for the election of Wet Senators and Representatives. At last showing (TIME, Feb. 27), the Wet bloc in the House was 61 strong, led by Representative John Charles Linthicum of Maryland. The A. A. P. A. will also try to insert anti-Prohibition planks in the national platforms adopted at Kansas City and Houston...
...something less than two years ago that we suggested in these olumns that if the Lampoon were going to continue to shout "present" or even "accounted for" in the ranks of the current comics, the best thing it could do was to hoof it to the nearest Liggetts and insert its savings in a tidy stock of Enos Fruit Salts or some equally efficacious cathartic...
Prohibition officials in southern Florida last week published a new recipe for getting drunk-a recipe that worried them because they could not see how to stop it. The recipe: into one coconut, bore a hole. Letting no milk leak out, insert two teaspoonfuls of brown sugar, followed by a cork. Refrain from touching the coconut for three weeks. Result: a tumblerful of cocowhiskey-pungent, potent, popular in southern Florida...
First came the three leading members of the Defense Committee? Gardner Jackson, Aldino Felicani, Mary Donovan. Each kissed the brows of the dead. An uncountable crowd, pushed and prodded into line by police, shuffled stuffily after to scowl, weep or gape. Miss Donovan was arrested when she tried to insert an anti-Judge Thayer placard among the funeral flowers. She was later sentenced to a year in jail, appealed the case. Artist William Gropper of the New Masses was not admitted when he came to make bier portraits...
Today the American is weakening. The terrible tabloids have out-Hearsted Hearst and the morning New York field in screams and scandals is dominated by the Daily News. For a time (about 1921) Mr. Hearst fought back by publishing a tabloid insert in the American, which did not pay out. Then he resorted to a tabloid of his own (he has several in the U. S. now) and his Daily Mirror, picture paper, is on the make with about 412,000 copies sold every morning...