Word: halloween
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Troy (142-mi.), through New York's Barge Canal to Oswego on Lake Ontario (184-mi.), and 1,045 more miles through Lake Ontario, the Welland Canal, Lake Erie, St. Clair River, Lake Huron, the Straits of Mackinac, then due south through Lake Michigan to Whiting. By Halloween, Mr. Kellogg expected to deliver one of the biggest single pieces of freight ever shipped...
Seven rambunctious Canadian mothers with a total of 65 children have been champing at the bit for four months demanding a verdict in the $500,000 Toronto Stork Derby (TIME, Sept. 26 et seq.), which concluded last Halloween. Last week they heard with relief that positively no claims filed after April 8 will be valid. That hearty, Rabelaisian character Mrs. Martin Kenny, mother of eleven, was keeping the Canadian press in convulsions by telling reporters: "I know positively that I am going to have the most children at one time. ... I never felt like this before with...
...last word in something or other was provided by Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling in a nationally syndicated cartoon titled "Halloween...
...murmur of traffic and a muffled clatter of Halloween high jinks floated up one evening last week to the roof of Hollywood's Knickerbocker Hotel. Searchlights on top of nearby cinema houses fingered the rosy sky over Hollywood Boulevard. On the hotel roof, ignoring a milling throng of spiritualists, magicians, newshawks, cameramen and gawpers, a plump, white-haired woman walked down a length of red plush carpet on the arm of a bearded man. Beatrice Wilhelmina Rahner Houdini and her business manager, Magician Edward Saint, seated themselves on thronelike chairs before a red-draped table. On the table...
Further pleas were answered by a Great Silence. Mrs. Houdini then said clearly: "Houdini has not come. I do not believe he will ever come." She covered her face with her hands. The lights went up and photographers crowded forward. In the street a Halloween firecracker exploded...