Word: extra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Squatting on top of a watch tower, U. S. Minister to China Nelson T. Johnson watched the terrific show. In London the Government of His Majesty King George announced that plans to evacuate every British subject from Shanghai's International Settlement were ready. A British ship loaded with extra munitions steamed Chinaward. In swank Shanghai hotels the white women were getting scared at last, refused to go to bed, sat in the lobbies hour after hour. To Washington cabled Admiral M. M. Taylor, Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet: "The Japanese have been forced to slow...
Matters became warmer last month when the Mirror asked Winchell to write for its new Sunday edition. Winchell demanded an extra day's pay ($166) on the basis of his $1,000 weekly salary. Refusing, the Mirror engaged a Sunday substitute...
...United States, at least 80,000 have an annual income of $2,500 or considerably less. A doctor is allowed 400 prescriptions a year. At $3 apiece it is a terrific temptation for a man making $2,000 a year to have an opportunity to make $1,200 extra...
Trains bound for New Orleans carried many an extra coach last week. Steamships had full lists. Air passengers coasting down toward the city at twilight saw its bright crescent glittering with extraordinary brilliance. Mississippi Valley farmers, fun-hunters from the North, socialites from the South, soldiers, sailors, beggars, gamblers, sportsmen and bootleggers packed together in broad Canal Street, looked up at huge electric signs forming the letters K O M (Krewe of Momus, Son of Night & Lord of Misrule). By those letters they knew that the Carnival had begun...
...average student, burdened with the exacting requirements of courses and extra-curricular activities, ordinarily has little time in which to indulge his inherent taste for art. With the realization of this fact, certain students in Lowell and Dunster Houses have conceived the plan of displaying in the respective Houses works of art contributed by members. The Lowell House exhibit is at present on display in the Student's Common Room, while plans for the Dunster exhibit are still in a nascent state...