Word: air
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leader in America, if America has any leader at all." It was 5:45 in the afternoon and spectators were peering down from the galleries into the shadowy old room. It was a moment which called for Patrick Henryesque flamboyance, and patriotic Mr. O'Connor sawed the air with both hands while supplying...
...spends heavily for scoops. Last week Yominri carried an exclusive story of eight Soviet Army officers in the Far East who decided to follow the example of two who recently escaped by airplane to Estonia, saying they had fled to avoid a purge in which hundreds of Soviet Army & Air Force officers are being secretly executed. According to Yominri, the plane in which the eight fled was chased by Soviet Secret Political Police aircraft. It shot down one of the pursuing planes on the Manchukuo-Soviet border, was itself shot down by other Ogpu planes. The eight Soviet officers were...
Appearing as Display No. 14 on the 26-item program, Gargantua was hauled round & round the Garden in a heavily barred, thickly glassed, air-conditioned wagon drawn by six white horses. Stocky & truculent, he stared menacingly out of his cage, was characterized by Frank Buck as "the most ferocious, most terrifying and most dangerous of all living creatures."* A coastal gorilla from the swamps of the Belgian Congo, Gargantua was brought to the U. S. as a baby by Captain Arthur Phillips, was bought by Mrs. Gertrude Lintz, animal-training wife of a stomach specialist, grew to apehood in Brooklyn...
...land. The narrow streets were essentially footways for getting from one group of buildings to another; their narrowness saved money on paving and protected shop fronts from the wind. Gardens, orchards and open spaces were more common than in any cities since. The medieval town was quiet, its air was fresh, its buildings were in the human scale. "We have tardily begun to realize that our hard-earned discoveries in the art of laying out towns, especially in the hygienic laying out of towns, merely recapitulate, in terms of our own social needs, the commonplaces of sound medieval practice...
...refuge a block away, their white tires carefully left an inch from the curb. James or William are reading their tabloids and ogling passing maids and nurses. But the streetcar still runs. It rumbles up to the great, grey building, shudders to a violent halt, relaxes with a compressed air sign, and allows passengers to scurry off. Two women, plump, middle-aged, the kind who dress the same for every occasion, every season, every time they go out of the house. A lad whose gaudy suit calls up instant associations with bargain basements. A sour wisp of a woman, ugly...