Word: betweeners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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World War II entered its fourth week and still the fiercest offensives between the Allies and Germany were on psychological rather than physical fronts. Propaganda ministries in London, Paris and Berlin worked overtime to deliver smashing blows at their enemy's popular morale.
George Jessel, radio showman, disclosed a pact between him and James John ("Jimmie") Walker, nimble-witted onetime mayor of New York City, by which the survivor will deliver the other's funeral oration. Showman Jessel has spoken 50 eulogies in the last 15 years. Most memorable one, over the...
Long-armed Governor Lewis O. Barrows of Maine triumphed for the second straight year in the annual potato-picking contest between the Governor of Maine and the Governor of Idaho, 382½ to 365 pounds. Said Champion Barrows: "I did it by just sticking my nose in the row." Said...
In the '90s, John Sloan was a staff artist on the old Philadelphia Press. Newsphotos had not yet been developed, and artists covered fires, parades, elections like reporters rushed back to do their drawings from notes or memory. In 1905 Sloan moved to Manhattan, settled in Greenwich Village as...
> Cleveland's Warner & Swasey Co. recently polled 251 corporate users of machine tools to see what percent of tools on hand were obsolete. Findings: of 120,864 machine tools in place, only 9.6% were bought between 1936-38, the years of most revolutionary machine tool engineering advance; 67.3% were...