Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...America today. All entertainment is artificial, it can be obtained with no more effort than the muscular activity involved in loosening the purse strings. Theatres, dances, movies, speakeasies, tabloids, all the conventional forms of amusement are at the beck and call of every man. His mind is a blank screen upon which no impressions are made; his intellect has been allowed to lie fallow for years. Beyond this there is the acceleration of every life. There is no relaxation, no tranquility, no time to take stock, and no stock to take. There is only the surpassing desire to make money...
...Century refused to be grounded by any such order. While American Airways was flying two schedules per day between Tucson and Phoenix at a $7.65 fare, Century started filling its planes with persons who paid nothing for the same trip. Each free passenger, however, was asked to sign a blank in which he endorsed Century service and the proposed Century fare ($5.75); he also agreed to testify, if necessary, for Century before the Corporation Commission...
...last week he sent them an ultimatum. A pack of dogs was prowling nightly through the zoo grounds, frightening the animals. One night they had killed a deer. Superintendent Hill had seen two police dogs, two bird dogs, one collie. All looked like nice, well bred dogs. He fired blank cartridges to frighten them away, but they returned. Unless Capitol Hill residents chained their dogs, said Superintendent Hill, "it may be necessary to use real cartridges...
While he did so, Miss Ghose and Miss Chowdhuri drew automatic pistols from their schoolgirl saris (shawls) and foully murdered Magistrate Stevens by pumping his chest full of lead at point blank range. A British orderly who dashed in was wounded in the hand by one of the schoolgirls last shots. Perfectly composed, they were locked up in the local British jail...
...complaints of Manhattan socialites whose names were withheld, offices of both magazines were raided on the same afternoon. At Town Topics (founded 1878 by the brother of its notorious long-time publisher, the late Col. William D'Alton Mann) detectives found themselves stopped by a blank wall and a peephole window marked "Subscriptions" through which a girl clerk told them no one was in. The raiders forced a door, found Editor Augustus Ralph Keller, a lean, sharp-featured, red-nosed little man with gold-rimmed spectacles. He was already awaiting trial on a charge of criminal libel brought...