Word: lid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the lid was clamped down as never before. The Cabinet met, Congressional leaders came & went, the President's message was revised, policies for 1935 were thrashed out. Such all important questions as how the demands for immediate payment of the Bonus, for inflation, for the 30-hour week, for the Townsend plan could be blocked in Congress or held to harmless proportions were canvassed. And for once the Press & public were kept in ignorance not by a plethora of conflicting information but by a silence undefiled...
Under the lead of its president, Parkman D. Howe '37, the Harvard Rifle Club last night pried the lid off its 1935 season. A postal shoot with Natrona High School of Caspar, Wyoming, formed the first match...
...years Herb Williams has made vaudeville audiences scream with delight by his quavering plea of "Spotlight!" from a dark stage. Sometimes billed as "The Bulgarian Military Pianist," he used to rummage for a ham sandwich under his piano lid, draw himself a glass of beer from a spigot beneath the keyboard. His comedy was generally of the tear-the-place-to-pieces variety...
...Oplenatz murdered Alexander of Jugoslavia, in his Austrian sarcophagus, will soon lie. From their catalog, Julius Maschner & Son chose the same model coffin as those they recently completed for former Chancellors Dollfuss and Seipel of Austria. All they had to do was remove the Roman crucifix from the lid and replace it with a Serbian Orthodox cross, applique the Jugoslav royal arms and a silver name plate. There were also a few minor adjustments to be made to be sure that it would fit on a Jugoslav gun carriage...
Down thumped the lid of the coffin. The cortége set out for Indianapolis' Crown Hill Cemetery where President Benjamin Harrison and three Vice Presidents rest in peace...