Word: cogs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Claude and Esther. His roustabouts wear natty, filling-station-style uniforms with cowboy hats, clown around on bucking steers between sales. Buzz himself is no mail-order Westerner. Colorado-born, he worked for a spell as a brakeman on Spencer Penrose's Pike's Peak cog road. As a prelude to his success story, he tells the curious: "I'm no relation to the ex-President, the G-Man or the vacuum cleaner...
...strongly protests against the humanity-stifling power of industry and its ever-increasing tendency to draw the life-blood from the individuality of the laborers. We see a group of shabbily-dressed workers slowly trudging toward the mines and factories where they are about to assume their tiresome and cog-like duties at the machines. The artist accentuates the depressing atmosphere which pervades the lives of these men by using as a background grim, grey chimneys and buildings, in addition to a cold, solid, winter sky. It is not difficult to see that Fiene is attempting to show the gradual...
Like all of Publisher Patterson's men, however. Managing Editor Deuell is only an intermediate cog in the machine that transforms Joe Patterson's personality into the medium of a newspaper. It was Patterson who ordered the story of his divorce played on Page Two, who decided his marriage to Mary King, editor of his woman's page, was worth only a Page Four position. Publisher Patterson's formula for success is to give the people what they want, but the reason it works so well on the News is that he knows the people...
Bill Parsons is the regular backstop and another main cog in the Samborski nine. One of the two setbacks the Yardlings received came with Parsons and Ed Buckley absent from the lineup for a spring football game. Buckley holds down first base and bats in the cleanup spot. Soft-spoken Gil Whittemore is a dependable hot-corner custodian and little Jim Lynch from Bolmont High is on second. Bud Finegan is the regular shortstop...
Pound has definite ideas on education, economics, politics and American history, besides his concern with literature. In his recent book "Culture" he said, among other things, "A great many 'scholars' are as helpless as isolated mechanics wd. be were each possessed of some spare part, screw, die, ever, cog, of a huge 'machine...