Word: heeling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Many a woman, taught to drink by Prohibition, last week hooked a French heel over a brass rail. Tower Magazines, Inc. distributors of mass periodicals through Woolworth Stores, asked its middleclass, female readership if they would serve beer at home. "Yes" answered 76%. * States which Drys believe will fail to ratify the 21st Amendment: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Dakota, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah...
...HANGING CAPTAIN-Henry Wade -Ear court, Brace ($2). Complicated goings-on in a down-at-heel English manor...
According to the Daily Tar Heel, undergraduate newspaper of the University of North Carolina, The Columbia Spectator is the best college newspaper in this country and Canada. Among other tidbits in his article, the Tar Heel's editorial chairman declares that "the current depression has exercised little effect on the tone and quality of collegiate journalism...
...conducted contests between second-rate birds. A larger class of cockers are poultry breeders, farmers, country folk who raise gamefowl for profit, pit them at well-advertised meets such as the Orlando tournament in Florida. The third class of cockers are wealthy individuals like the members of the Heel Tap Club, who breed and fight gamecocks for the amusement of making huge sidebets. Lest their names become known, such breeders almost never pit their birds at well-known meets...
...looks older than he is. In March 1931 Mr. Beale took over the People's Church in St. Paul, whose pastor for many years had been Howard Y. Williams, now secretary of Professor John Dewey's League for Independent Political Action. People's was down-at-heel, in a shabby neighborhood. Preacher Beale stepped up its program, managed this year to increase its budget...