Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first dance in Paris "Mile." Baker wore feathers on her rump, bananas dangling from her belt, nothing else. Parisians were raving overnight about her lithe bronze body, her wild sense of rhythm. Soon she was able to conduct her own night club, buy a chateau, a bed which was supposed to have belonged to Marie Antoinette. To be near her collection of birds and monkeys she had cages built in the house. She ate fish heads and roosters' combs served with special sauces, toured Europe with her own revue, walked the boulevards of Budapest with two swans...
...marriage. The household of one of his followers had been broken up through a wife's infidelity, and Noyes had reconciled all parties, who went to live with him in Putney, Vt. There the unconventional religious views of the Perfectionists aroused hostility, but no knowledge of their sexual conduct reached the townspeople. With great gravity and high sense of moral earnestness, a general reshuffling of wives was arranged, continuing until most of the Perfectionists had new partners. Converts were eagerly sought, until at length the conversions of young girls brought down widespread antagonism, arrest, threats of lynching...
Assistant U. S. Attorney General Russell Hardy opened with a blast that the $660,000,000 assets of the defendants had been "maliciously and unconscionably used" to "crush" Fanchon & Marco, who had "suffered losses to date exceeding $200,000." Said he: "The conduct of the defendants in this case has put a stain on a great industry...
...Serge Koussevitsky will conduct the first of a series of eight Sanders Theatre concerts on Thursday evening...
...enthusiasm which accompanied the new coaching regime drew many curious thousands into Soldiers' Field Saturday. To those who know the situation and expected no miracles the showing of the team was as satisfying as the conduct of the spectators was amusing...