Word: evens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the Spanish war came rumors of a new air bomb expressly designed not for demolition but to kill personnel. These German-made bombs were said to be light (6 to 60 Ib.) and relatively cheap; even a small bomber could carry and release a great many. The casing was criss-crossed with grooves like a bar of chocolate so that a 10-pound bomb would fly into 800 small, jagged fragments of uniform shape. Many of the fragments fly out horizontally, giving the burst an effect like the circular sweep of a machine...
...musical, Leave It To Me! on Labor Day. In Leave It To Me's cast definitely ready to reopen with it, was blondined, billowy, 55-year-old Sophie Tucker herself. Ultimatumed A. A. A. A.: If Comedienne Tucker, suspended by its member Equity for "treason," rejoined the cast even at rehearsal, the actors would walk out. Ultimatumed I. A. T. S. E.: If Producer Freedley tried to hire a substitute, the stagehands would walk out. A. A. A. A. President Frank Gillmore rallied his Thespians. His lieutenant, acting Equity President Bert Lytell, his eye on the headlines, keynoted...
...months since they took Shanghai from the Chinese, the Japanese have gradually tightened their censorship of the Chinese and English language press. Papers outside the International Settlement were easy to deal with, and even those inside have tactfully toned down their anti-Japanese news. But one newspaper the Japanese have been unable to muzzle is Ta Mei Wan Pao (meaning Great American Evening Newspaper), Chinese-language edition of the Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury, which is owned by the Far East's No. 1 life insurer, bustling Cornelius Vander Starr. By printing pictures of Chinese resistance in West China...
...works of precisely the same period as the Madonna with the Cat, done in Leonardo's late twenties. The drawings for the Madonna with the Cat "show, as nothing else in his work, a direct and happy approach to life " As Leonardo's intellectual wrestle with painting went on even his drawings became less spontaneous and his paintings took on a cold quality of mystery...
...explained: "Some times we get a little something added to it, and then sometimes we get a little something taken away. . . . We will be camped in a desert, and the head cook will walk up to me and say, 'We haven't got no syrup,' and even after nine years that he has gone on these trips with us, he will look around for the corner grocery store where there is no store in 20 miles of there. . . . Yes, sir, it is an unusual camping experience." Last week, having given all these facts, and many another, considerable...