Word: carded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Told by newsmen that Columnist Westbrook Pegler had suggested he go back to work, Labor Martyr Tom Mooney brandished a paid-up A. F. of L. Molders Union card, snapped: "During eight years of that hell [22 years in San Quentin Prison] I peeled potatoes. . . . Maybe that writer of scurrilous stuff may classify what he does as work...
...only other contest on the week's card, Penn shut out Columbia as its Sophomore right hander, Tony Caputo, turned in a one-bitter, but the Red and Blue remained in sixth place. It was the season's finale for the Lions, who finished in the League cellar...
...thing that sometimes happens to newspapers that jump the gun. As Governor Stassen and his lady stepped into line to do their handshaking, a guard tapped the Governor on the shoulder, asked him to step aside. The Governor, his face as red as his hair, handed the guard a card. The guard sent it to Manitoba's Premier John Bracken, who was standing beside the King and Queen. Before the card reached the premier an aide took it, gave it one glance, laid it aside. The presentation ceremony ended minus the quick, warm gesture...
...florid, stagy melodrama-to keep moving. The story of a noble Austrian family who get in dutch after Anschluss, it tells of a beautiful princess who, to save her brother's life, agrees to marry a brutal Nazi Commissioner, of a sly old grandfather who has the winning card up his sleeve. In the end the harassed nobles get safely across the frontier-into Ruritania...
...said J. Pierpont Morgan when, in 1924, his and his father's great Morgan Library in Manhattan was incorporated as a semi-public institution-its treasures available not to just anybody, but to a few students, to people who took the trouble to write for an admission card. Last week, for the first time, the great Morgan Library's grille-work gates were with due precaution thrown open to the public, for the duration of the New York World's Fair...