Word: curbings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Italy has openly thumbed its fascist proboscis at the League of Sations. Unless the League takes definite action to curb Italian aggression in Ethiopia, Geneva might just as well turn the Palace of Peace into a Minsky Burlesque house. And yet at the point of voting for definite sanctions, Marianne claims her female perogative to change her fluffy mind...
...Goodyear blimp lazily circled over St. Louis day & night urging from banners and neon-lit signs: COME TO CLEVELAND IN 1936. Below, lighter spirits dragged a bed all over town invited ladies to try the mattress. Across it were the legends: CLEVELAND FOR A PERFECT '36-CURB SERVICE...
...first Good Humor was concocted in 1920, the year that "Mike" Meehan moved up from the New York Curb Exchange to the New York Stock Exchange where he soon began riding Radio from $25 a share to a high of $549. Good Humor's creator was Harry B. Burt, a Cleveland candymaker, who took the name from one of his earlier creations, a clear candy sucker. Chocolate-coated ice cream was already the province of Eskimo Pie. But ice-cream-on-a-stick was new, patentable...
...their turn inherit the position of leadership. It is up to you to keep in touch with these students--to know what they do and what they think. They have their own particular tendencies and the smart man is he who can direct the natural force and not curb nor oppose it. But first he must understand the students...
...fond as his father. Hobnail boots, ropes and alpenstocks were piled into the back of the royal Packard touring car beside the chauffeur. In front Leopold took the wheel while Astrid sat beside him, holding a road map. They started down the lakeside road, keeping close to the curb because the pavement was slippery. In a second it was all over. Just before reaching Kussnacht, with the car rolling along at 50 m.p.h. Leopold turned his head to look at the road map. The right wheels of the car slipped through one of the 18-ft. openings in the concrete...