Word: frames
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brothers Meyer is also credited development of the popular "skeeter" ice boat. When introduced in 1931 on Lake Pewaukee by one Roger Joys of Milwaukee the first skeeter was merely a ten-foot triangular wooden frame supported on three runners, carrying a small sail on a 15-ft. mast. Today it is a sporty, front -steering ice-racing machine with 75-ft. sail area, manageable by a girl, thrilling enough for a man, inexpensive (150-$250). light enough (125 Ib.) to be disassembled and hauled about by auto. While not so fast as such legendary performances as Kittie...
...last week was to charge that the Red Army, which is supposed to have been thoroughly indoctrinated with Communism during all these years, has in fact now become disgusted with the way Communism is working in Russia, and has in recent months obtained under J. Stalin mastery of the frame-up and third-degree apparatus of Justice in Russia. According to Mr. Levine, the New Generation represented by the Red Army now "regards the Old Guard Leninists as the greatest obstacles in its path...
...pictures, "Woman Carrying a Child," and "Children Playing Rummel-Pot," were both in pen and ink on white paper. The first was 4 3-4 by 2 7-8 and in a small, simply carved, antique, gold frame, while the second was 6 7-8 by 4 5-8 and was also inclosed in an antique, gold frame, with carved design...
...along by the Harvardian who had escorted me from New York. Soon I could catch glimpses of a park full of buildings. The square and the other side of the street along which I was walking were more decently and consistently planned than the average American small town, where frame shacks and ferro-concrete skyscrapers jostle each other. In Cambridge (you must get used to the fact that there is a Cambridge other than that which exists for your convenience) there is neither skyscraper nor shack, but a lot of demure, Puritan red-brick, keeping its undistinguished self to itself...
...appear in starring vehicles. Among the best known of Miss Cornell's earlier plays are such bravura works as The Green Hat (1925), The Letter (1927), Dishonored Lady (1930). Few critics considered these or The Barretts of Wimpoh Street (1931) or Lucrece (1932) mon than a theatrical frame for Miss Cornell's great acting ability. Candida, St. Joan Romeo and Juliet, regardless of their merits, are not strictly Miss Cornell's plays, being revivals...