Word: flock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt settled down in an arm chair under a big locust tree with a white-washed trunk, and each morning as four retired submarine chasers brought a flock of Congressmen to the island, he presided over something resembling an old-fashioned political picnic. Republican Senator McNary, not invited, sarcastically described the performance as a "weekend charm school." During the evenings which the President spent on the island with six members of his Cabinet and several Democratic leaders of Congress, some serious politics may have been talked but during the day he was surrounded by shirt-sleeved Congressmen eating off long...
...similar device, Sleuth Short one day last week connected his camera's shutter with the bottle's cap by a wire through a milk-proof tube. Next day he had a fine picture of the thief-a sleek, fat, impudent blue jay. Subsequent spying revealed that a flock of less gifted jays followed the thief, helped him skim the cream after he jimmied the bottles...
Host to the I.C.A.A.A.A. for the first time in 34 years, New York will flock to Randall's Island tomorrow to view the largest and most important track meet in the East this season...
...Southerner, approved of the election of John Simeon Williams. For seven years this slight, 39-year-old man of God, who left Jamaica to labor in Cuban sugar fields, left there to earn his way as a tailor through Alabama schools and a Chicago seminary, has shepherded an Omaha flock of 57. A good tenor. Minister Williams built up an interdenominational choir which has given 250 concerts, sings on the air once a week. In their modest home near his church, Mrs. Williams last week neglected the washing to receive visitors...
...told her frankly that if she liked to sing just for her own amusement, he would take her money. When she met Andy (Kent Taylor), a fresh pressagent, he was so rude she cried. To make amends he tried to exploit her farm background by having her drive a flock of geese across Broadway at the afternoon rush hour. For the first time in cinema history, newspapers treated this publicity stunt as wary metropolitan editors actually do treat such affairs- labeling it publicity and publishing it for its amusement value. Thereafter the story, scanning Wanda's eventual appearance...