Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Candidate Winters was assiduously distributing his thimbles among Toledo females. On each thimble was emblazoned the legend: "SEW UP THE MAYOR'S RACE FOR WINTERS!" The clippings he pasted up on the front of his official headquarters?tales of recent Toledo crimes?to remind Toledo voters that Potentate Brown's candidate for reelection, Mayor William T. Jackson, had promised a crime cleanup, had not succeeded. The prize clipping related how the Brown Chief of Police had paid $7 to recover his watch from a pawnshop, whither it had been brought by a thief who had sneaked it from the room...
...Painter Chandor got them all to sit together for a monster canvas which, when finished, was given a place of honor in the Government's pavilion at Wembley and later hung permanently in the Colonial Office. This piece of work entrenched Painter Chandor, at 27, in the very front rank of his profession...
...Author Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (TIME, June 17) so similar is Author Renn's War that comparisons of the two will be inevitable...
...cross rivers, take towns, shoot rifles. Deep in France, shells displace bullets and flying shrapnel forces "us" to dig into the earth. Bang! rat-a-tat! whack! bang! "My" friend crawls under sheet. Showers of sparks on the ground, then Crash!?a dark brown cloud over the front line. There is a curious noise close by. Something moves under the sheet. A jagged hole in it appears. Boo-oom!?pat-pat-pat! The ground shakes. Gas. Shrieks. Four years of this. Escape: death, a wound, a breakdown, intoxication, an occasional stolen feast. In 1918 comes disintegration, lack...
...Senate Finance Committee's hearing on the tariff at Washington, 140 miles away. Capt. William J. Flood of the Army Air Corps, who earlier in the year landed a blimp on the roof of the Munitions Building in Washington, offered and proceeded to blimp the senator to "the front door of the capitol," depositing him conveniently in the plaza near the Senate wing. Predicted the most air-conscious senator: "That's the way all congressmen will arrive here soon...