Word: wrapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sinister but fascinating mental healer, Osgood Perkins has never had better lines to wrap his tongue about. He begins with the observation that "Maine is a masculine Riviera." He progresses to Bismarck's solution of the Irish question, to wit: send the Irish to Holland, the Dutch to Ireland. The Dutch would soon make Ireland a garden. The Irish would soon forget to mend the dikes. Finally he reaches the heart of his cynically expedient philosophy by recalling that he started out as an eye-ear-nose-&-throat man, but soon shifted to psychiatry because "the poor have tonsils...
...Macon (TIME, Feb. 10), on each & every seat lay a copy of The Georgia Woman's World, a four-page throw-away devoted largely to photographs of President & Mrs. Roosevelt consorting with Negroes. Promptly the local WTAdministration announced that Brother Alexander Howell had used WPA labor to wrap and mail copies of The Georgia Woman's World. Last week's indictment followed...
...occasional tentative note of concern and passion is apparent between the lines. Most of Peggy Bacon's poems and pictures are impressions of city life, ranging from a glimpse of a laborer asleep in a subway to a literary party, from a professional invalid who needs "a wrap, a steak, a toddy and a kick!" to a celebrity who seems "so small beneath her crown!" A contrast between a farmer's "quilted hills" and a desolate city ruin suggests the type of life Peggy Bacon opposes to that which she satirizes. One surprisingly tender lyric, "Detached," indicates that...
...telling you and I'm telling him just what I'm going to do. I'm going to wrap it all up in one package and let him have it in the first round. . . ."-Max Baer, in Speculator, N. Y. where a grandstand at his training camp last week collapsed, injuring 60 people...
...careening and rolling down a bank, battering and smashing its occupants every inch of the way. can wrap itself so thoroughly around a tree that front and rear bumpers interlock, requiring an acetylene torch to cut them apart. ... A leg or arm stuck through the windshield will cut clean to the bone through vein, artery and muscle like a piece of beef under the butcher's knife. . . ." At the end of the article Reader's Digest announced: Convinced that widespread reading of this article will help curb reckless driving, reprints in leaflet form are offered at cost...