Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bringing bathing beauties from Hollywood, thirsts from Kentucky, boasts from Chicago, members of Optimist International poured into Denver, Col., last week for their ninth annual convention. Denverites put on cowboy and Indian costumes, fired blank cartridges, stuck up welcoming signs...
...division of National News it would seem that some of the criticisms of TIME have been justified. This is a direct affront to our "Heroes of the Air." The mention of this ill-famed slacker is bad enough but the space the cut uses would have been well left blank. It may be that TIME has forgotten America's part in those hectic days of '17 and '18 as has also "one" Cyril D. H. G. Dillington-Dowse [TIME, June 181. I cannot salute you, TIME, unless the future can show a more judicious selection of news...
Woodbridge began to speak. . . ." Such was the Denver Post's description of the hearty welcome that Denver gave the advertising people. One Miss Ora Williams of Pine Bluff, Ark., tumbled off a fire truck; one Miss Betty Blunk had her body scorched by blank cartridge fire; bathing girls put on a "battle"; the American Legion Drum & Bugle Corps played "music"; hired Indians played as natives; a hotel thief took $400 from Tom Nokis, president of the Outdoor Advertising Association of America, while he slept; a pickpocket took $210 from D. Edward Gibbs, program director of the International Advertising Association...
...Woodward (Bunk) and Irvin Cobb, Professor William Lyon Phelps and David Belasco. Cartoonist Rube Goldberg was allowed to make up one game and, choosing the monosyllable "cdflm," he included among his categories a "kind of candy" and "something you see in a barn." This book also contains blank pages for self-sufficient Guggenheimers and people who like to try outguessing themselves...
...Indians were really what he liked. Feathers poised they darted about reckless in their atacks upon stage coach and prairie schooner, dauntless in their desire to make everything a success including their blank cartridges. Then what do you think happened? You just could never guess...