Word: cupfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city detectives had gone around the corner for a cup of coffee at 1:15 a. m. on the appointed day, when Chief John Edgar Hoover suddenly appeared with ten G-men, proposed an immediate raid. Refusing to wait for police headquarters to be notified, the No. 1 G-man and his squad rapped on Brunette's door, got a splatter of bullets for answer. For an hour they pumped revolver, rifle and submachine-gun bullets, tossed tear gas bombs into the apartment. Its Venetian blinds ignited. Firemen came, and were caught in the cross fire between desperado...
...down the law to the most famous opera company in the world. He had seen that company once proud & secure. He had cut down his budget on high-priced singers. He had watched the Met struggle through Depression years by shortening its season, humble itself in a desperate tin-cup campaign. Few weeks before Gatti's resignation, the harassed Opera Board signed over its independence to the Juilliard Musical Foundation for $150,000. In return the Board agreed to raise an additional $100,000, to admit Juilliard bigwigs to their council, to increase regular attendance by 10%, to append...
...have thus far invariably been betrayed by labor leaders sooner or later, so the peaceful majority of mankind have never yet found political leaders who did not ultimately conduct them into war, however reluctantly. Today Mr. Hull burns with righteous indignation at the gall and wormwood of the rearmament cup which all States are now brewing. So burned President Woodrow Wilson, and so to burn is in the best...
Examples show the many different styles worked out by the silversmiths. There is a superb porringer, or "caudle cup," dated 1600 and 1667. This is richly ornamented with large leaves and flowers, while the handles are made from grotesque heads. All this stands plainly for the pompous style of Charles...
...this drama Phillips Brooks House plays its part and plays it well. Many a future citizen at Harvard finds impressive the fact that the juvenile crime rate soars dangerously where no settlement house is located. He is concerned, and not in the tea-cup manner, about the people who live on the rim of existence. Today it is possible to find in the well-organized Phillips Brooks House clothing drive merely one outward manifestation of vigorous internal life and social usefulness...