Word: chunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this lack of any genuine dramatic writing that procures for plays like "Reunion in Vienna" the extravagant critical kudos that is received. All in all, however, it provides a most diverting evening--with the aforementioned aid of Barrymore and Wynyard. Unfortunately, for some inexplicable reason, a large chunk of the best scene has been deleted...
...piece of the very rock upon which St. Paul, preached was received with pomp and ceremony last week by Cathedral-builder Bishop Manning, who loves to collect relics for his fane. It is a 30-lb. chunk of rose granite...
...citizens can hope to grasp concretely what the whole amazing U. S. rail system is. But the biggest chunk of it, that part which laces and crisscrosses the vast factory between Chicago and Middle Atlantic Coast-is identified by four names...
Plot: A Pocatello, Idaho madame, wronged in youth, sits in the centre of a web of rootin', tootin', shootin' lawlessness. Her name is Salt Chunk Mary. But although she conducts a thieves' den and liquor saloon, Salt Chunk is violently opposed to white slavery, has a 14-karat heart. To her resort comes a youthful badman who soon pokes his neck in the shadow of the gallows. Salt Chunk, drawn to him by some strange fascination, makes him promise to go straight, helps him escape with the sweetheart he has picked up in her place, dies...
...Jackson. Tenn.. a small chunk of ice whisked from a fruit express, cut off Edward Smith's nose...