Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soupstakers held up to British ridicule Mrs. M. H. Houghlan of Broadus, Mont., disqualified because the chief ingredients of her vegetable soup are beef knuckles and heel of beef. Also calculated to put Britons into stitches was the revelation that an egg dumpling soup was entered in the vegetable classic by Mrs. S. H. Long, No. 403 Sunnyside Ave., Waterloo, Iowa...
Last week this classic case of a hot-house industry was desperately trying to forestall a tariff cut in connection with the proposed reciprocal trade pact with France. Pleading in Washington before a special tariff committee which acts as a buffer between irate industrialists and State Department negotiators. President Hugo N. Schloss of the American Lace Manufacturers Association solemnly asserted: "I have endeavored to demonstrate to your committee that the machinery of the lace manufacturing industry is a potential arm of the national defense." President Schloss's point was that lace machinery can be used to weave mosquito netting...
...Great Train Robbery (1903), The Birth of a Nation (1914), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1921), The Gold Rush (1925), The Jazz Singer (1927), the newsreel of the sinking Vestris (1928) are classics which help explain how & why the cinema became what it now is. Because the profitable demand for them is soon exhausted, most films, classic or otherwise, are retired after about two years, frequently forgotten, sometimes destroyed. To preserve for students and posterity important moving pictures of the past will be the function of the film library which Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art this week announced...
...forced out and held it ever since, knew then that if his car held together he could not fail to win. It held together. Officials checked his time, found that with 106.24 m.p.h. average for 500 miles, he had set a new record for the Indianapolis Memorial Day Classic. Second, nearly a lap behind, was Wilbur Shaw of Indianapolis. Third was "Wild Bill" Cummings, winner...
...annual winter classic the H-D-C triangular meet will be replaced next spring by a Quadrangular Indoor Track and Field meet among Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, and Cornell, it was announced yesterday by the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports. The inclusion of Yale in this winter event has long been urged in sporting circles. The meet next year is scheduled for March 7 in the Boston Garden...