Word: breaks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mickey the Dude," as he is known, earned himself some notoriety last fall by personally trying to break up a fake Nazi parade which was an initiation stunt by the Lampoon, College humorous magazine. For his pains he was rewarded by a much-publicized kick in the pants...
...Attorney General's recuperative schedule for five days, varied only when he ate his vegetable dinner at the Dunes instead of the Green. Several eager Narragansetters invited the rufous gentleman, whose eyebrows rival John Lewis' and Jack Garner's for density and concentration, to break bread, but he politely declined them all. U. S. District Attorney J. Howard McGrath from Providence was his guest two evenings at the Dunes. Otherwise he kept alone. By week's end, when he departed in his big official Packard for a Michigan visit, he was fairly well rested. His nose...
...chips by rounding up collector's items in hobbyists. In its time, it has cluttered NBC's elegant Radio City studios with all sorts of oddities ranging from a man whose hobby was training parrots not to talk to one whose idea of diversion was letting people break paving stones on his head. There have been casualties of sorts. The paving stone idea, for example, looked a little risky to NBC. Chips from the granite, flying out from under the sledge hammer, might have cut someone in the studio audience. So a dinner plate was substituted...
...Streussel recipe: half cup of butter, eight tablespoons of sugar, one grated lemon rind, one pinch of cinnamon, four cups of cake flour. Mix, break into rough crumbles, spread thick on yeast-raised coffee cake...
...Heart disease and diabetes are also more common in the North than in the South. Reason: Northerners must work hard to generate body heat during long cold winters, often overstrain their energy centres. Diabetes, for example, is caused by break-down of the pancreas, an abdominal gland which secretes a hormone responsible for converting sugar into energy. Toxic goitre, which frequently accompanies diabetes, is caused by strain on the thyroid gland, which regulates energy production...