Word: cribbing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York, Washington. Philadelphia, Buffalo and Niagara Falls is the outside of homes. . . . What is the atmosphere of an American home? How do parents and children get on? What attitude has a boy on the fifth floor of an apartment building toward his small sister lying in her crib by the window? How much is the care of these children left to nursemaids...
Last fortnight flames licked about this Democratic shrine. Two barns, a corn crib and the carriage house went up in smoke, down in ashes. Damage: $19,999 (no insurance). Cause: unknown (Republicans were locally suspected of arson on general principles). Caretakers trundled out to safety the coach in which Jackson rode for 30 days to his first inaugural. Six valiant fire companies from Nashville saved the old mansion...
...science, scholarship, journalism and industry to understand America. ... I do not forget that an Oxford experience will be immensely stimulating to the American appointee. . . ." The Rhodes professors will visit from one to five years, will be attached to Balliol College, which is scholastically prominent and famed as the intellectual crib of the late Herbert Henry Asquith and many another statesman who rose under Her late Majesty Victoria. The finality of royal assent was given in England, last fortnight, to a bill providing for the division of the U. S. into eight districts of six states from which annually four Rhodes...
...presence of small children in the White House immediately after Inauguration and for some time subsequent, also helped pitch the White House in a new key. One of the first articles of furniture to be moved in was a crib for Grandchild Herbert Hoover 3rd, aged 13. The house was his. He romped and played and chortled up and down its long upstairs corridor. Oldtime servitors had not seen such family fun since the days of the Roosevelts...
...dying in the bed, his head mangled. The Negro chopped at Mrs. Stribling, gashed her over the eye. She begged for mercy. "Well, then, go and wash your face," he said. He went with her, washed his hands. He asked to see her baby and stood over its crib for several minutes. Like a mother partridge playing broken-wing, she begged him to leave the house with her. He took her to the swamps on the edge of town. . . . She got to a hospital, half-crazed...