Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such orthodox Republicans found plenty of public activity on which to feed their expectations. Last week Calvin Coolidge came out for Mr. Hoover in the Saturday Evening Post. Excerpts from "The Republican Case...
Buckminster Fuller talks no riddles when he says his dymaxion house "is not property to be owned, but a mechanical arrangement to be used." The new model has a fixed circular core, cased in a streamlined, pearshaped shield which swings with the wind, like a feed-tray for birds. The circular core, hung on a duraluminum mast planted on, not in, the ground, is lashed together by guy-wires on a system of triangular tensions, like an airplane. A square house piles up air pressure on the windward side, creates a vacuum on the leeward side, thus sucking the heat...
...Angeles court discharged an $82 judgment against Noah Beery, cinema villain, when he declared himself indigent. Said he: "Yes, I own Paradise Ranch. And yes, there are fish on it, but the income from the ranch isn't enough to feed the fish." He said he had only 19 days film work this year; that his huge stickpin was glass...
Hecklers: Why didn't you feed some of those ex-soldiers in Washington...
...delicate distinction between players who are "bums" and players who are not, arose again last week in a dispute between officials of and 14 entrants in the Seabright, N. J., invitation tournament. Like most clubs which hold invitation tennis tournaments, Seabright Lawn Tennis & Cricket Club offers to house and feed competitors. In the old days, before tennis became overrun with characters whose social graces approximate those of young public links golfers, club members fell over each other to get visiting players as house guests. Since last year the Seabright club has not offered to house and feed competitors...