Word: blanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whitehall, meanwhile, one of British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's fashionable young men had invented a quip which was soon being drawled in the salons of Mayfair: "It seems the American President has delivered a new Sermon on the Mount-Mount Blank." Much too God-fearing to join in such British ruling class levity, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain at once took action to fill in what His Majesty's Government regarded as the most vital part of the Chicago speech- its blanks. The British Embassy in Washington was instructed to ask exactly what the President wants...
...following a too adventurous leader. Not even in numbers has the A F. of L. yet become the lesser half of the House of Labor. The C. I. O. vaingloriously claims 3,700,000 members, many of whom, however, are only members insofar as they have signed an application blank. The A. F. of L. after losing 1,000,000 members to C. I. O., claims 3,600,000 members, approximately the same number it had before the schism. Impartial estimates place the membership of the two rival labor groups at about 3,200,000 each...
Performing in the title role of MGM's Badman of Brimstone, Cinemactor Wallace Beery dashed into a frontier set. brandishing a six gun in either hand, tripped, fired a blank cartridge into his thigh...
...thousand kindly acts in my behalf and never gave me a kind word anytime. He was a big soft-hearted Dutch sentimentalist who studied to be gruff so people wouldn't find him out. I'm still mad at him and this telegraph blank is wet with tears because he won't bawl me out any more...
...train railroad workers (clerks, signalmen, etc.) will cost $100,000,000. The five big brotherhoods of railway trainmen for a month have threatened to strike unless given a 20% raise. This would add $116,000,000 a year and the roads have refused point-blank to grant the full amount on the grounds that these workers are already very well paid.† A raise similar to that given to all other employes would cost some $30,000,000 yearly...