Word: hand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the museum was open to the public on Friday, only a small group of visitors and a reduced staff were on hand. The showcases opened were in a third-floor room of the museum on a table...
...hard to find examples of indiscretion and tactlessness in the past month. When business demanded that the government raise its heavy hand of regulation, the latter responded in two quite rash ways: Assistant Attorney General Jackson, with his political eye cocked at his chief, berated the "business Bourbons"; Secretary Ickes claimed that sixty families controlled the economic destiny of the nation. Labor opened its mouth first when Matthew Woll, vice-president of the A. F. of L., said that most trade union leaders thought the government had gone too far in regulating industry. The U. A. W., an affiliate...
Native music in out-of-the-way parts of the world is fast disappearing. Thousands of songs and drum rhythms handed down through generations of woolly-headed blacks, Oriental priests and court musicians (even by U. S. Indians, hillbillies and Negroes in the South and West) are already extinct. Causes of this high mortality rate: the phonograph and the radio. Primitive races find old-fashioned radio sets somewhat fragile for jungle use. But cheap, hand-cranked squeak-boxes with chipped records of American cowboy songs and Italian operas are found today in mud-walled villages from Timbuktu to Singapore. Impressed...
From a hotel in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, to catch a train for Flin Flon, Manitoba, rushed a salesman with coat flying, bag in one hand, hotel water jug in the other. Accused of stealing the crockery, he cried: "I know, but my teeth are frozen in this durn...
...Chicago, Leon A. Mitchell, onetime official greeter for the Hotel Sherman, asked $5,000 damages from Commonwealth Edison Co. and Charles Kelly, greeter for the company. Reason: when Greeter Kelly shook hands with Greeter Mitchell in an office building, Greeter Kelly "did violently, vigorously and firmly seize and squeeze with such force that the third phalanx of the first finger of the plaintiff's right hand was broken...