Word: clangs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still like to see prison-gates clang and hear prison-horns howl in the night, the film will probably entertain...
...President in the Philippines, Patrick Jay ("Pat") Hurley, youthful and dashing Secretary of War, last week also took on some of the attributes of a presidential Mouth. Journeying to Manhattan, he made two rousing political speeches in defense of his Chief which had in them the clear clang of the coming campaign. What keyed up the Hurley addresses even more was the fact that friends of their energetic and ambitious maker warmly hope that 1932 will bring into the G. O. P. field a Hoover-Hurley ticket and that, as the vice-presidential nominee, Pat Hurley will carry...
...strident clang of the county clerk's cash register Nevada last week went on its new divorce schedule. Reno did its biggest business in the 67 years of the State's lax divorce law. Ever since the Legislature last March reduced the residence period from three months to six weeks, the city has been filling up with married women "to take the cure" (TIME, March 30, et ante...
...filing day Clerk Beemer of Washoe County opened his office at 6 a. m. for the rush. A representative from every one of Reno's 130 law firms jostled into line to file one or more petitions for clients seeking release from marital ties. Clang! went the cash register 30 times per hour as $20 was rung up for each petition. Clang! it went again as another $10 was deposited with the answer to each uncontested action. In the line of lawyers were the U. S. District Attorney. Nevada's Attorney General, the local District Attorney and the Mayor...
...everything that makes the fire engines clang is a fire. Sometimes it is a child's prank; sometimes it is a cat-a cat which, having climbed higher than it can bear, is meowing so piteously, so tediously, that the neighborhood sends for hook & ladder. Last week the Fire Department of White Plains, N. Y. revolted against cats, announced that in the future it would untree no cats whatsoever. Reasons: 1) too many firemen had been badly scratched; 2) apparatus off cat-chasing is not quickly available for fires...