Word: facings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Threatened with a wholesale bolt to C. I. O., the council decided this week to give jurisdiction of former A. F. A. members back to the actors, then got down to saving what face it could for Councilman Browne and Secretary Whitehead...
...went on fighting. Two officers, both painfully wounded in the legs, crawled about giving orders. Another stood cheering and waving on the few survivors of his company after a shell had shot away his hand. One of the small boats had trouble making fast to the mole. In the face of machine-gun fire, the commander of her landing party calmly climbed on to the mole, made fast a grappling iron, fell riddled into...
Climax of the maneuvers was an experimental blackout of all southeast England including London, prime objective of the Eastland raiders. As "Big Ben" struck 12:30, the lights that illuminate its face faded out. Most householders and shopkeepers had already voluntarily followed the Government's request by extinguishing outside lights, curtaining windows, painting over skylights. Angry crowds smashed the signs and windows of two nonconformist shops. Police in white raincoats and civilian air wardens halted cars, asked drivers to dim down to parking lights. Crowds out to see the fun bumped their shins on dark sidestreets and flocked into...
While Germany's representatives in the U. S. spluttered that no statement of condition could be demanded of a sovereign nation, SEC's five members (three Democrats & two Republicans in full accord) enjoyed the well-earned slap which they had given the Nazi face...
...lower brackets with the kindly solicitude of a slightly prurient older sister and a hard-boiled realism that would do credit to a brothel-keeper. Sample Dix advice to the nubile: "A young girl who lets any one boy monopolize her simply shuts the door in the face of good times and her chances of making a better match. . . . The wise girl keeps a wary eye out to note how a man reacts to the money proposition before she says 'Yes' to a marriage proposal. . . . Few grafts are more profitable than comforting a widower. But remember that fast...