Word: digger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...canoe, or crossing on ice. She was wearing shell pendants in her hair, around her neck. From her waist hung an apron of strung shells. A dagger of antler dangled from a thong. The Minnesota girl's bones might never have been recovered if a scientific digger had not asked a practical digger for help. Professor Jenks had arranged with the Minnesota State Highway Commission, which was putting a road through Ottertail County, to watch for fossils. Finder of the Minnesota maid was one P. F. Stary, sharp-eyed section boss. Year and a half ago at a dinner...
Joan Crawford is the candid gold digger in the piece, and Clark Gable her only visible means of support. They manage to keep most of the honors to themselves as they trudge through several thousand feet of film which broke at odd intervals throughout the evening. Clark it seems had had an unlucky break in his first marriage so, although he loved Joan very much and she loved him, he would not run the risk of a second flasco. They therefore settle upon a very satisfactory, if unoriginal method of solving what, save in Hollywood, is a very perplexing problem...
Hunters. To expedite the investigation, Chairman Peter Norbeck, a onetime South Dakota well-digger, last week organized a sub-committee of five. Besides himself, Senator Norbeck appointed Republicans Couzens and Townsend, Democrats Fletcher and Glass. Conspicuously omitted was President Hoover's good friend Senator Walcott of Connecticut, who started the bear hunt. Washington thought he had tried to soft-pedal the inquiry after trapping more Republicans than Democrats in bear's clothing. Four special investigators and an accounting firm were to be hired. Representative La Guardia's explosive testimony was the subcommittee's first move to broaden the hunt...
...letter from Africa last week interested the meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Manhattan. Wrote Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey, digger in East Africa: "It is almost beyond question that the skeleton of a human being found by Professor Hans Reck in 1913 is the oldest known authentic skeleton of Homo sapiens...
...investigation starting this week will be made by the Banking & Currency Committee, chairmanned by Senator Peter Norbeck, onetime South Dakota well-digger. A stanch believer that short sellers are vicious and their influence destructive, Senator Norbeck went about his new task enthusiastically last week. When asked what effect his inquiry would have on the stock market, he almost yelled...