Word: glassing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miller, Illinois physical education teacher, home from a dance, saw her safely in, drove off. Jaunty, dark-haired Mary Jo was staying with her brother, J. H. Miller, on Dallas' quiet Monte Vista Street. As she undressed in the bathroom, she heard a sudden thud, a crash of glass, from the front bedroom where she slept. It sounded like a floor lamp falling over. Mary Jo ran in, saw a suitcase on the floor, under a broken window. Something was dreadfully wrong. She ran to the rear bedroom to wake her brother. Just as he stepped...
...that end, all stops are out on the appeasement pipe-organ, and Chief Organist Stephen T. Early has orders to stomp on the bass. Time was when Virginia's old fireball, Carter Glass, would as soon enter the White House as a poolroom; likewise, Utah's William H. (I'm Against It) King, and many another. Now these conservatives are smiled on, their counsel taken, their birthdays and patronage remembered...
...Doell mounted the porch steps, rang the bell. Nobody answered. The front shades were drawn. He rapped sharply on the glass door-panels; still no answer...
...dinner dress made of glass fibre...
Glittering in a gold-sequined gown, her hair swept up, her feet in spun-glass slippers, Marva Trotter Louis, wife of Heavyweight Boxing Champion Joe Louis, officiated at the coronation of St. Louis' Negro society king and queen. Introduced as "leader of Chicago society . . . America's premier lady of fashion," Mrs. Louis was accompanied by a local physician, who informed all, "I am a personal friend of Joe Louis." Interviewed by newshawks, Mrs. Louis said of her husband: "He never gets rowdy in the home. I sure wish I had his poise and calm...