Word: carding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German press raged that a Sudeten German farmer had been beaten by Czech soldiers when he failed to produce an identity card...
...nude female figures, which she calls "dialectic" drawings. Last fall, she made a drawing of her eleven-year-old daughter, Frances ("Franja"), a lively little girl who wears her black hair in bangs and braids. To 1,000 fellow faculty members, students and friends last December went a card inscribed on the back: "Merry Christmas from the Hutchinses." On the front was the drawing of the Hutchinses' young daughter holding two candles...
Last week the University students' annual news review, Echo, with undergraduate temerity published the drawing, printed a rumor that juvenile Franja had been so embarrassed by her parents' Christmas card that she had persuaded her father-a critic of progressive education -to send her off to join a friend in progressive Jokake School in Arizona...
...invention. An attendant hauled a shrinking mouse out of a coop, dropped him on a flat, glass wheel. Frightened, the mouse started to sprint. The wheel spun. When it began to slow down, the mouse sought shelter in one of the 56 glass cages, each marked with a playing card. This time he darted beneath the jack of clubs. The croupier scooped up the chips, paid 50 to 1 on straight bets on the jack...
Eddie Collins, Joe Cronin, and several other members of the Yawkey Back Bay Millionaires are scheduled to put in an appearance. There is a possibility that other sporting celebrities will be included to round out that part of the evening's card...