Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Monday, the staff assembles in Editor Stout's office, sits down at a Chippendale table at one end of the room and in a blank dummy of the magazine which is to reach subscribers and newsstands four weeks hence, makes up. Between fixed points-the front page, the editorial page and the Campbell's Soup ad-the nation's favorite magazine reading matter, written and bought from a year to a week before,* is arranged. A good cook needs no recipe and the Post's editors follow a make-up routine which is unstated...
...General in Spain, Miguel Aranda of the siege of Oviedo, was leading the relief column against Teruel and none other than Jos Moscardó, hero of the Alcazar, was re-enacting that same siege inside Teruel. Tanks rumbled against the cathedral within the hour. Six-inch guns fired point blank into the seminary, the bank and cathedral where the last-standers were holding out with vanishing supplies and little ammunition...
Instead of the usual long line of lovelies, Between the Devil'?, chorus consists of only twelve girls, chosen, says the program, for their "air of distinction and breeding." Like a bed of well-bred poppies, their faces are vivid, beautiful, blank...
...anyone who sent him $1, Father Cox mailed a "St. Christopher Miraculous Medal" and a blank on which to suggest three names for the garden of St. Patrick's Church. The priest hired a promoter, one B. J. Clifford of Cleveland, and 25,000 people entered the contest. Said the Christian Century, best-edited U. S. Protestant weekly: "Not even a 'miraculous medal' can perform the miracle of transforming this sort of traffic into anything other than a disgrace to the church...
...unidentified undergraduates spent a busy afternoon yesterday, if the word of one who gave his name as Chief Laughing Bull is to be believed. For, replete with war paint, blankets, feathers, moccasins, and blank cartridge pistols, the group staged an attack on the government-sponsored pioneer expedition in Warren, Massachusetts, just before sundown...