Word: lid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...historians of the future describe the decline and fall of the American Republic they will point to today as one of the milestones on the road of the disintegration of our country. . . . These are not loans to States. Not one penny will be paid back. We are lifting the lid of Pandora's box and we'll never be able to close it. It is a step toward making mendicants of our people...
...Lid Off! Now that no amount of secrecy on the part of Press or Police could return the child alive to its parents, the lid of caution abruptly blew off the case. For the first time pictures of the nursery were published. And the text of the original ransom note, which newspapers had withheld since the case entered its second day lest negotiations for the child's return be jeopardized, was unofficially made public...
Eyelids Mended. When an eyelid is damaged by injury or disease it can be mended satisfactorily by grafting a bit of skin from another lid, from the inner surface of the arm, or from behind the ear. Skin from those places approximates the thickness of an eyelid. Lids thus mended may blink,' wink, close. If his patients insist, Professor Vilray Papin Blair, St. Louis lid-mender, transplants a strip from the eyebrow. Eyelashes from eyebrows usually look straggly. Professor Blair also makes eyebrows with grafts from the scalp. These tailor-made eyebrows require frequent barbering...
Dictators have to sit lynx-eyed on the lid, have to stay home. But they have their proxies. Last year President Hoover honored Proxy Dino Grandi, pleased Dictator Mussolini (TIME, Nov. 23). Last week Turkish Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha sent two Proxies to Moscow and Dictator Josef Stalin supremely honored them by ordering the first Soviet reception ever tendered to foreigners in the former ballroom of Tsar Nicholas II the marble White Hall of St. George in the Great Kremlin Palace...
...Wall Street. Last week the box, a big, brown trunk, was so full of woe that it required two men to lug it in to Senator Norbeck's bear-hungry Committee on Banking & Currency, still investigating the stockmarket (TIME, April 25 et seq.). When Congressman La Guardia opened the lid, out flew a flock of woes for Bulls, Bears and the financial press...