Word: jacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alarmed, peppery little Senator Carter Glass of Virginia sent a telegram to Manhattan. Reassuring, lively little Chairman John J. Raskob of the Democracy telegraphed back: "The story of Jack Johnson being authorized to speak on behalf of the Democratic National Committee is cheap Republican propaganda. Johnson has no connection with this committee in any capacity...
...business, refused to admit delegates from the Seamen's Union (suspected of being red); refused to receive a delegation of unemployed coal miners who had walked many a mile from their mine to appeal for help; and shouted down John Joseph Jones M. P., famed as "Jumping Jack Jones," when he rose to protest that the seamen and miners ought to be granted at least a hearing...
...General Strike times "Jumping Jack" was one of the most popular Laborites in England and the enfant terrible of the House of Commons. Nowadays, with jobs scarce and employers holding the whip hand, Mr. Jones no longer jumps. His howlers down cried, "Keep out the Reds, but let all the rest...
...broken parachute strap brought death to 23-year-old Jumper Jack McEleven at Florence...
...Water Hole. As every cinemaddict knows, one of the sure-fire plots is the one about the vivacious, vampy heiress who is kidnaped by either a cowboy or an engineer who wants to tame the shrew. This time it (Jack Holt) is an engineer, though neither rod, bob nor transit appears in the Arizona locale. He abducts Judith (Nancy Carroll) because she won a bet with her cronies that she could make Engineer Randolph propose in a week. Hidden behind a window are the losing cronies who at the proper moment expose themselves, causing prodigious embarrassment to the engineer...