Word: borings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then began the ugliest rioting of the strike. Down on the "Social" district, a mile from Woonsocket's business centre, bore a howling mob of hoodlums, some 1,000 strong. For three hours the town was theirs. Roaring up & down streets, they smashed, splintered, looted...
...Militia moved to immortalize a young militiaman named Di Valero as its idea of a certified peacetime hero. In a competitive mountain-climbing hike he scrambled so far, so fast and so high that at last his nearest competitor gave up in exhaustion. Di Valero, emulating the "youth who bore 'mid snow and ice a banner with the strange device Excelsior!" kept climbing until finally he fainted and died of heart failure. This exploit, according to the editor of Milizia Fascista last week, typifies the "will to win" so lacking in pre-Fascist Italians. "The heroism of Di Valero...
...first pictures of the burning Morro Castle." That jibe was mild compared to Acme's. The latter in a two-page layout showed facsimiles of the New York World-Telegram and the New York Sun the day of the disaster. The former, labeled 12:15 p. m., bore a large picture by Acme of the liner ablaze. The Sun, labeled 4 p. m., carried a stodgy still of the Morro Castle in her prime. The credit line was Associated Press Photo. Across the top of the advertisement streamed this headline...
Labor pains roved through her. She cried for help. No one came. She tried to hold the baby back at least until daylight. But there could be no waiting. Mrs. Toner got out of bed and like solitary females of primitive times, bore her baby, an 8-lb. girl, without any assistance...
Fully as astounding as Mrs. Toner's fortitude was the precocity of Mildred Morgan, 11, of Kodak in the foothills of Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains. Last week the child, who weighs 82 lb., bore a healthy 7½-lb. baby whose father was a 14-year-old-boy. Only two dozen similar cases of young motherhood are known to have occured in this country...