Word: frames
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...successful capitalistic enterprise, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels), Labor has been unalterably opposed to Samuel Clay Williams as NIRB Chairman since the day he succeeded NRAdministrator Hugh Johnson (TIME, Feb. 25). Because he believed that Mr. Williams had given employers the better of the bargain when he helped frame the preliminary cigaret code before he came to NRA, President Ira Milard Ornburn of the A. F. of L. cigar makers' union introduced a resolution at last autumn's Federation convention urging President Roosevelt to reconsider Mr. Williams' promotion. A "Dear Bill" letter from the White House...
...Canton, China, the local fire department scheduled an exhibition leap from a burning three-story platform. With 10,000 spectators watching, two Chinese firemen climbed to the top. Someone set fire to the gasoline-soaked frame before the life net was ready. When the flames reached the top, the two firemen jumped to their death...
...well, too, for the true Don Quixote actually lives in the tall, spare-frame of Feodor Chaliapin. Singing little, but acting much, he has recreated the lovable old idiot. Nothing could be more purposefully ridiculous than the skeleton-like Chaliapin, with his wild hair and corkscrew beard, crawling out of an attic window buttocks up to find himself facing his pursuers--in his nightshirt. Nor could anything be more pathetically humorous than the armor-clad knight as he revolves in a large circle slowly about the windmill, stuck fast in one of the sails. And so scene after vivid scene...
...tension, he munches slowly a huge wad of chewing gum, rarely speaks a word during a game. Instead of waving his arms, he lounges against his cage as if it were a mantelpiece. All this helps mask his real capabilities: preternaturally quick eyes, phenomenal ability to spread his bulky frame across his goal...
...Columbia undergraduate is strongly perturbed. A cup of coffee in one hand and a library in his wake, he trundles dismally along the appointed orbit. And as he passes, the foul Eumenides tweak his dank locks. When he falls by the wayside they smear his gaunt frame with thick and amylaceous sepulchral ointments, gleefully telling his ribs as they ply their flendish task. Let us shudder and shamble onwards...