Word: descent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whispering campaign against both him and Governor Landon had been in progress for three weeks. In the East Jews were being told that he and the Governor were anti-Semites. In the West anti-Semites were being told that the Governor's middle name, Mossman, proved his Jewish descent...
Lionel Stander is a shaggy young Jew of Russo-German descent whose sudden rise to cinematic fame in the past year can be traced, like so many others in Hollywood, principally to a misspent youth. Too independent to follow his father's profession of public accountant, he ran away from school at 14, earned his living for five years as cab driver, lifeguard, reporter, tile setter, office boy, bank clerk. Where an orderly schooling might have refined, this helter-skelter existence served to aggravate the amazing accent of an illiterate Hell's Kitchen ragamuffin which...
...descent from the pole, shielded from direct view as it was by the tent, might have been accomplished in a number of ways. . . . Probably the manner of attaching the horizontal bar to the upright stick was such that, while supporting the Yogi, the bar could still be caused by vibration, to slide intermittently down the pole. To illustrate this process, take a round stick and a flat stick with a hole in one end the size of the cross-section of the round stick; slip the hole of the flat stick over the round stick, and attach a weight...
This demonstrates the principle of one possible way in which the descent may have been effected, the horizontal rod in this case projecting out from the vertical pole through the folds in the drape, and being disjoined and disposed of before the removal of the tent. But there are several other possible methods that the semi-secrecy of the tent would have permitted. In any event, Plunkett's assertion that "evidently we were not meant to see this part of the performance, or it would all have been done in the open" is incredibly...
John Philip Sousa was born in Washington, D. C., Nov. 6, 1854. His father was a Spaniard of Portuguese descent who served in the U. S. Navy. His mother was born in the U. S. of Bavarian parents. Sousa was a most patriotic American. I knew him from the time I was 13 years of age until the day of his death, when he was a guest at my home...