Word: associationism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quail Stuffers. To fatten quail for market, Italian and Polish gaveurs (bird stuffers) work in Paris market-hall cellars, chewing up grain and fruit into a pap which they let the quail eat from their mouths. The pecking quail abrade the gaveurs' lips, noses, chins. The peckmarks become infected...
With Nova Scotia gone Wet, Ontario confirmed in wetness, the little province of Prince Edward Island with a population less than Yonkers, N. Y., is the only part of Canada which has not cast off prohibition. U. S. Wets could not forbear to gloat last week. Cried President Henry H...
For "selling smuggled diamonds" two Moscow jewelers met death. (The American Jewelers Association estimates that 50% of the diamonds sold in the U. S. have been smuggled.)
For "organizing a religious society called The Union of Those Who Praise His Name, which was in fact a counter-revolutionary association of priests and land-owners," 15 persons, including two one-time Tsarist army officers, were shot at Rostov in the Northern Caucasus.
Nov. 12, 13?American Newspaper Publishers' Association meets at Asheville, N. C.