Word: hungers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fowlerville, Mich., portly Mrs. Stella Barnhouse was informed she had been declared "World's Best Liar" for 1936 by the Burlington (Wis.) Liars' Club, which awarded her a medal in the form of a miniature lyre. Liar Barn-house's story: To relieve its hunger, a gargantuan Michigan mosquito buzzed into a barnyard, spied a tough old mule named Maud. Halfway down the mosquito's gullet, Maud let go a fierce kick, broke the insect's neck, saved the town...
Promptly quashed by Federal engineers was the dream of many a delegate that short-wave reception might offer a solution to their hunger for additional radio time. The short-wave bands open to present day receivers are relatively narrow, and largely assigned to commercial operators. President William Mather Lewis of Lafayette College described the only U. S. short-wave station that is non-commercial and non-profit-making, Boston's WIXAL. Founded by Engineer Walter S. Lemmon, who shyly refused last week to make a speech, WIXAL since 1934 has broadcast lectures and lessons by Harvard, Radcliffe and Boston...
Miss Ellen Wilkinson, the tiny Member for Jarrow whose "hunger marchers" have recently been snubbed in London,* tackled the Cabinet's wealthy shipping tycoon, President of the Board of Trade Walter Runciman, thus: "Can the President say why, in the case of two American magazines of high repute which have been imported into this country, during the last few wrecks at least two and sometimes three pages have been torn...
...young, male or female, eats sweets. There are almost as many sweet shops as tobacconists. Sweetstuffs spoil the appetite, which is their principal object; whoever believes they taste good, like German sweets, is making a mistake. English sweets taste solely like sugar or chocolate. They can drug gnawing hunger and at the same time spoil the teeth (about 50% of the people over 40 years of age in England have false teeth...
...that there were 44,000,000 savings accounts in the U. S. even in Depression. These and other facts, read the advertisement, reached "right down into the very roots of your own life - and your family - and your future," were as "deep, as abiding, as encompassing as hunger, love, religion...