Word: downes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile Japan also turned on the U. S., reacting violently from its soft answers to Ambassador Joseph Clark Crew's dressing-down of last month. Mr. Tetsuma Hashimoto, president of a one-man patriotic society called the Purple Cloud, bought five columns in the Tokyo newspaper Yomiuri to call...
Until recent times, the treatment of madness was a kind of desperate punishment. In medieval madhouses patients were sometimes bound in whirling chairs and spun till blood ran out of their ears. Others were plunged down steep chimneys onto a pile of writhing snakes.
Many a man knows at least one statue he would like to down, but it usually takes a war or a revolution to give license to such effective criticism. Last week German invaders in Posen, Poland destroyed a twelve-foot statue of Woodrow Wilson, carved by Gutzon Borglum and presented...
And he went down to his grave to free the slaves.
On this week's show, Walter Huston, from Hollywood, wrestled through Stephen Vincent Benet's The Devil and Daniel Webster; eagle-beaked Comic Jimmy Durante paid off with: "T'ank yuh, Boigess. May I call yuh Meredit'?" Much of the continuity was contributed by the U...