Word: brushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every Tuesday and Thursday evening throughout the school year 62 clinics were conducted benefiting 602 newsboys through the medium of dental examinations and prophylaxes. Each boy examined was provided with a tooth brush complete with tooth paste, and instructions as to their...
...nearly every Carnegie International Exhibition since 1910 has appeared a painting from the determined brush of Mrs. Johanna K. Woodwell Hailman, one of Pittsburgh's own artists. In her huge old mansion on Penn Avenue, rich, widowed Mrs. Hailman almost single-handed keeps up a neighborhood where the Carnegies, Fricks, Heinzes and Mellons built their first palaces, only to move later to more fashionable fields. Socialite but steadfastly Edwardian, Mrs. Hailman dominates the city park system, has a tart tongue for politicians and a tender spot for fellow artists. Several months ago she commissioned young Pittsburgh Sculptor George...
...zaro Cárdenas makes frequent journeys to observe conditions among his people. As tireless a horseman as Roosevelt I, President Cárdenas loves to beat the brush, sometimes leaves his $350,000 Olivo (olive-colored special train) at an obscure siding and gallops off to find the underprivileged. On such occasions local governors are under strict orders that the President is not to be guarded. They know he means it, and they try to keep their troops always just beyond the next hill. A tent is good enough to shelter the President at night, but if the hacienda...
...ringing budget speech ranged far & wide over all phases of Soviet Union life in striking phrases. There are 33,000,000 pupils in Soviet elementary and secondary schools, he declared, and the proletarian State boasts of no less than 50,000,000 bondholders. Putting in figures with broad brush strokes, Commissar Zverev reported that: 1) the State's revenues would be 125,184,000,000 rubles (of which 83,000,000,000 rubles is to come from turnover taxes); 2) the State's expenditures would be 123,684,000,000 rubles (major items: 47,000,000,000 rubles...
Based on an original story by Emerson Hough (The Covered Wagon), rigged out with a full quota of blizzards, prairie fires, stampedes, cowboys, carpetbaggers and Comanche Indians, The Texans contains more than enough action for a grand scale brush country epic. That it fails to emerge...