Word: hall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quail Stuffers. To fatten quail for market, Italian and Polish gaveurs (bird stuffers) work in Paris market-hall cellars, chewing up grain and fruit into a pap which they let the quail eat from their mouths. The pecking quail abrade the gaveurs' lips, noses, chins. The peckmarks become infected, ulcerated; the gaveurs are miserable, sometimes die. ... So reported the Journal of the American Medical Association, ever on the alert for new occupational diseases...
Hottest heat was that between nimble Lady Astor and spry old Lieutenant Colonel Sir Frederick Hall, 65. This time the Noble Lady, 50, captured her favorite aisle seat (she lost the race last spring? TIME, July 15). This year, for the first time in the House of Commons, she was hatless...
...their boots on" (by violence). Although 32 of the bodies were removed to the town's cemetery in 1878, it is popularly supposed that several collections of bones still lie under Boot Hill sod. On this traditional spot the "Last Roundup" laid the cornerstone of a new city hall. Then a statue was unveiled of a cowboy, appropriately drawing his six-shooter, said the inscription: "On the ashes of my campfire this city is built." The figure was carved by O. H. Simpson, onetime pioneer dentist...
Last week in Manhattan, a jolly little round-faced man walked into the lobby of a small, sooty-red downtown office building, No. 13 Astor Place, and told the elevator boy that he wanted to get off at the tenth floor. Smiling, happy he went down a long, dim hall, entered a little office filled with the stinging smell of turpentine which painters had finished swabbing only the night before. He noticed and was pleased with a vase of roses?"from the Executive Staff"?on a shiny new desk. He sat down at the desk. Officials swarmed...
...Cambridge, Mass., atop the solemn, Georgian bulk of Harvard Hall there is a cupola where, one morning long ago, early risers were astonished to behold a horse & buggy. In another Harvard Hall, banquet room of the Boston Harvard Club, there were assembled, one night last week, some 400 members of the Yale and Harvard Clubs of Boston, the Yalemen guests of the Harvardmen. Each alumni body had brought along its university president. All understood it to be the first meeting of its kind in history...