Word: lid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago one of Manhattan's most fabulous characters, known to every reporter in town yet mentioned rarely and discreetly in the press, blew the lid off his own story by standing on his head at the Metropolitan Opera House. By so doing, in the midst of a brilliant host of spectators who had gathered to celebrate opera's seasonal opening, Richard Allen Knight became news...
...breathers, Bates and Chicago, failed to lift the lid from the football stew at Cambridge. But the twice victorious Quaker bruisers have already indicated a capacity to solve the Crimson mystery. They're big, they're seasoned, and they're determined to chalk up their second victory, away from home, in ten years...
Today the Faculty convenes in a session which may produce a revolution of major proportions against Administration policies. The situation has been growing steadily more heated, and it is about time for the lid to blow off. Yesterday the English and Government departments met in long and stormy meetings which may well have been preludes to this afternoon...
...Mayor of Warsaw, "Stefan the Stubborn" Starzynski, as all Poles were calling him, stank last week the corpses of men and horses rotting in almost every street of Europe's fifth largest capital. More than 500 separate fires were blazing in Warsaw, covering the city with a choking lid of smoke and flame. The reservoirs were blasted and dry, the power plants smashed, and Nazi bombers, after destroying the Jewish Home for Crippled Children, had methodically blown to bloody smithereens all Warsaw hospitals, crammed with wounded...
...Reason: for the week ended Sept. 23, U. S. grain exports totaled 366,000 bushels against 2,779,000 bushels in the same week of 1938. One commodity which had previously got somewhere for some specs was sugar. But this exploded too when Secretary of Agriculture Wallace took the lid off all marketing restrictions...