Word: peppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pepper" Martin. Having thus taken a gallant flyweight, Death laid a bleak forefinger on the throat of Vincent ("Pepper") Martin, stopped his breath. Martin-a boring, windmill, hell-for-leather youth-first came to fame as a bantamweight, put on weight, entered the junior lightweight division. A fortnight ago he was beaten by Alike Ballerino, Junior Lightweight Champion. During the bout he whispered to his handlers that he had a pain in his chest. He was defeated, went to a hospital with pneumonia, was defeated again...
Died. Vincent ("Pepper") Martin, 27, junior lightweight boxer; in Long Island City, of pneumonia...
...York Legislature in the course of an investigation of the Manhattan housing shortage. Mr. Untermeyer charged in his letter that General Electric was "whitewashed" by onetime (1921-24) Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, and that J. P. Morgan & Co. had "virtual control" of the Company. Mr. Manly added pepper to this highly-seasoned letter by declaring that Mr. Dwight Morrow, partner of J. P. Morgan & Co. and classmate of President Coolidge, possessed an "overshadowing influence in the present administration." Then Owen D. Young, Chairman of General Electric, retorted sharply, denied that the Company possessed any monopoly in incandescent lamps, asserted...
...control of Congress during the short session after a Presidential election could, with the support of the outgoing President, or with a two-thirds majority, enact a law which would prohibit the new President from forming a new Cabinet of his own. In short, the Senate, if Senator Pepper's contention is sound, could so usurp the executive function as to make a President powerless. All of which is absurd...
...Swift, or Rabelais. That Paul Bunyan stood about 400 feet high in his orange and lavender checked wool socks; that he invented the logging industry and combed his beard with a young fir or redwood when thinking of other ways in which he might make history; that the salt, pepper and sugar in his camp's cookhouses were drawn down between the tables by four-horse teams while tens of thousands of ravenous lumberjacks bounced on their benches for joy at the smell of the great Black Duck dinner cooked by Hot Biscuit Slim; that Johnny Inkslinger, Bunyan...