Word: blonds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This neighborhood is the stamping ground of Alfred Cohen. Alfred is a small, blond, wiry eight-year-old boy who lives with his parents and an older brother and sister on the fifth floor of a walk-up apartment house. Directly across the street is Bronx House, where there is a dance every Wednesday night, where the dramatic club occasionally puts on shows like H.M.S. Pinafore, where the free art class of the Federal Art Project meets daily...
Radiotype looks like an ordinary typewriter, can be operated by any typist, can handle invoices, statements, inventories, any size paper, complicated or simple forms. More versatile than teletype, radiotype is also twice as fast, can transmit and type 120 words a minute. Stocky, blond Inventor Lemmon is working with Assistant Engineer Clyde Fitch on attachments to make radiotype do and transmit the work of adding machines, cash registers...
...Sound. This was the first recurrence since 1936 of the post-Prohibition atrocities which FBI thought it had stamped out by relentless sleuthing. Last week it was promptly followed by another in Princeton, Fla., a hot-dog hamlet just below Miami, on the highway to Key West. There chubby, blond James Bailey ("Skeegie") Cash Jr., 5½, had been put to bed and left by his mother while she went to help her husband shut their grocery store for the night. Some one slit the rear screen door and carried off the child in his pajamas. Lodgers upstairs heard only...
Neat, "platinum-blond" Principal Lester Dix, who produces more than 100 tons of fancy tomatoes each year on his farm at Princess Anne, Md., was not a bit flustered last week by the guinea pigs' criticisms of Lincoln School. He was pleased "that our friends do not hesitate to tell us about our worst faults." And Alumnus-Teacher Tom Prideaux explained: "Progressive teaching is popularly suspect. It is a convenient scapegoat. Further, many students in new schools like Lincoln are recruited from families with a talent for criticism. They have rebellion in their bones...
...remembered him as a stalwart lad whose boat had taken them on a camera expedition up New Guinea's dangerous Sepik River. The offered role turned out to be that of Fletcher Christian, in a film to be called In the Wake of the Bounty. In an old blond wig ("which made me look like a harlot") he swaggered for a week or so at $5 a day on the poop of a grounded H. M. S. Bounty on rockers. After the completion of the film, the impresario hit upon a great publicity stunt. Errol was called back...