Word: lid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Havana Federal authorities clamped an iron lid on all news. To test the censorship, the New York Times telephoned U. S. bankers in Havana. Their call went through immediately, but every time the revolution was mentioned the connection was abruptly cut. But no censorship can stop Cubans from talking. Havana, seeing the battle of Gibara through the bottoms of innumerable beer glasses, received a far more colorful picture: not three dozen Cubans but a foreign legion of 500 Cubans, French, Germans, Japanese and U. S. citizens had landed under command of a mysterious U. S. Colonel.* The streets ran with...
Harvard's baseball team knocked the lid off its 1931 season by crushing a weak Northeastern team yesterday by a score of 20 to 0 at Soldiers Field. The game was, on the whole, slow and colorless and was finally called in the eighth inning because of darkness...
Having had but a few days of outdoor practice in which to mould into shape, the Harvard baseball nine will definitely put the lid on winter this afternoon when it takes the field against the Boston University team. The game, which is scheduled for 3 o'clock at Soldiers Field, is the opening tilt for both teams, and marks the eighth successive year in which the two nines have commenced their seasons together. Of the annual season opener contests since 1923 Harvard has won five. Boston University two, while one game was called off on account of poor weather...
Unfaithful (Paramount). Ruth Chatterton, who has made a reputation as an actress of heavy dramatic parts, has up to this time kept in control her instinct for staginess and lah-de-dah affectation. In Unfaithful, she takes the lid off. She is the U. S. wife of a frivolous British nobleman. She knows her husband is unfaithful but she cannot divorce him because to do that would let her high-strung brother know that his wife is the peer's mistress. There are possibilities in the idea, in spite of clumsy direction, but whatever possibilities there are Miss Chatterton...
...gushed greater, became a major threat to prices. The Federal Trade Commission demanded a revision of 18 of the 21 rules of ethics adopted by the industry in July 1929. Earnings statements were bad. Dividend reductions included Standard Oils of Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska. In Oklahoma, Potential Production rattled the lid of Proration, never securely clamped down...