Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next three years include the British Empire Exhibition in Glasgow, Scotland (1938); the Tokyo International Exposition to mark the 2,600th anniversary of the founding of the Japanese Empire (1940); the San Francisco Bay Exposition to celebrate the new bridge from San Francisco to Oakland opened last autumn (February 1939). Ruled out by the International Bureau of Expositions as a fair-of-the-year, the San Francisco Bay Exposition will be a local fair...
...public museum. For many years Banker Bache kept his great collection in a large Manhattan apartment, bought his present house in 1925 with the idea of turning it into a museum. For his own use Mr. Bache kept only a small suite on the third floor. By this autumn all remaining changes should be completed...
...entertainment business entered upon a period of license equaled only in Europe. The films got broad and bare. Fan dancers, "nudist colonists" and other female exhibitionists were responsible for the gay success of world's fairs at Chicago, San Diego and Dallas. The fair girls vanished with the autumn and the Legion of Decency rectified the films. But burlesque in New York City suffered no brake except Commissioner Moss's warning and an occasional police raid when a show got too hot for even the precinct police captain to tolerate. The old scatological burlesque jokes bandied...
Deciding to take up indoor polo, Gabriel ("Frenchy") Loudoux, manager of a Flushing, L. I. riding academy, last autumn bought a small chestnut mare named Nightingale which had had some training in the game. He rarely rented the horse to his customers, keeping her mostly for himself and sometimes letting June Ebdom, a 15-year-old neighbor girl, take her out for exercise. After a few months Horseman Loudoux noticed Nightingale's middle beginning to swell, dismissed it as hay belly, a common winter affliction of horses...
...John J. O'Neill of the New York Herald Tribune, William L. Laurence of the New York Times, Howard W. Blakeslee of the Associated Press, Gobind Behari Lai of Universal Service and David Dietz of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers, for their coverage of the Harvard Tercentennial celebrations last autumn...