Word: catchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Worthy of note also is the picture. I can imagine the leering triumph of the photographer who maneuvered himself into position to catch this view...
...eggs, 560 Ib. of coffee, the P. I. D., operating with 10,000 men set out from San Antonio in three columns to bivouac grounds 150 miles farther North. Two successive night marches, made in complete darkness except for the lights of cars leading columns, enabled it to catch the slow-moving Red army at Mineral Wells. P. I. D. roundly defeated it in a sham engagement of which one result was the capture of real horses and mules for which P. I. D. had no earthly use. Next day, its task accomplished, the "streamlined division" turned back...
...moral turpitude" became a national catch-phrase when U. S. immigration authorities used it as grounds for barring entrance into the U. S. of Vera, Countess Cathcart. Countess Cathcart's moral turpitude consisted of having been named as corespondent in a divorce case. Last week, "moral turpitude" suddenly popped up in U. S. headlines again for the first time in more than a decade. Occasion was the arrival in New York of Mme Magdeleine La Ferriére ("Magda de Fontanges"), Parisian journalist and actress who last spring pinked France's one-time Ambassador to Italy Count Charles...
...diseases is measles. It spreads much faster than its nearest morbid rivals, smallpox and influenza. And it infects practically every person exposed to it, unless he has been immunized by an attack of the disease. In this country next winter and spring some 800,000 people, chiefly children, will catch measles. Only a few will die, and those the victims chiefly of broncho-pneumonia which often accompanies a measles attack. But many will suffer the rest of their lives from poor hearing which measles often initiates...
From a Georgia banker: "One of these days the tractor and the mechanical picker are going to catch up with cotton, but by that time it's going to be too late to help the tenant farmer. . . . What it all adds up to is that cotton has ruined ten million people living in the cotton States, and it's going to ruin a lot more before it's through. . . . Some nights I can't sleep at all for lying awake wondering what's go- ing to happen...