Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shares Pittsburgh Plate Glass, worth...
...Arriving in Tacoma full of beans after junketing in Alaska, PW Administrator Harold Ickes last week jumped into the intra-Democratic dogfight with an unexpected assault upon tart old Senator Carter Glass of Virginia. "The reactionary press," said Mr. Ickes, "hails this 'rugged individual' as another Horatius-at-the-Bridge because of his bitter attacks on economic policies of the Government. Yet no Senator comes oftener and with more insistence for PWA grants than this same Senator Glass." From his home in Lynchburg, back cracked Senator Glass, overflowing with indignation and invective: "Secretary Ickes has become a confirmed...
...Rome, the Messaggero reported that the golden crown of deposed Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, studded with 718 diamonds, had been placed on sale by a London jeweler for $2,500. "A great bargain at such a small price," exclaimed the Messaggero, "provided the diamonds are not made of glass...
Last week in Cincinnati a glass-topped metal casket was on view. Flower sprays were banked by the coffin. Nearby was an oil painting of the deceased. In two days 1,000 mourners filed silently past. The deceased: King, a German shepherd, one of the two first guide dogs in the city. Reason for the fuss: King had been poisoned. Such a wave of sympathy followed King's death that Cincinnatians saw hope for a $10,000 farm where guide dogs could be trained (as at The Seeing Eye, Morristown, N. J.) to lead Cincinnati's 550 blind...
...views on education. If the college is to be rebuilt on the old lines, she says, her guinea might as well go for matches to burn it down. She would like it to be a "poor college," with no chapels, lectures or degrees, made of wood instead of stained glass and ivy, teaching music, literature, conversation, cooking. But she knows that the graduates of colleges must get jobs; she is too familiar with 19th-Century methods of educating women to be indignant about 20th-Century methods. She sends the guinea with one condition: that the young ladies not be taught...