Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...words of a song which State Motor Vehicles Commissioner Charles A. Harnett distributed among 150 assorted businessmen, Broadway sports and has-been politicians who sailed down New York Harbor one morning last week aboard the lighter Charlie White to greet James John Walker. The onetime (1925-32) Mayor of New York was returning to his native city after three years of self-exile in Europe. A pall of dirty fog overhung the harbor. But it did not compare with the cloud which hung over Mr. Walker's head when he resigned his job and sailed away from New York...
...Liebermann matures, his style becomes more and more linear, the tonality becomes lighter and a freshness and power of draftsmanship appears. Prints of horse racing and polo games illustrate masterful drawing and a vigorous rendering of figures in violent motion...
...Berwyn Heights, Md., neighbors of Minnesota's Senator Thomas David Schall, have started recently at the sight of the blind Senator trotting about his farm on horseback. No novice, Senator Schall in his youth was a constant rider. One day in 1907 he leaned over a cigar lighter which flared up in his eyes, blinded him, ended his riding. Six weeks ago. still totally blind, he mounted his first horse in 28 years, found he could ride without difficulty. Scorning help, the strongwilled, strong-tongued Senator allowed companions only to call "To the right" or "To the left...
Cleveland attacked the problem by land and air. In the air a Goodyear blimp lazily circled over St. Louis day & night urging from banners and neon-lit signs: COME TO CLEVELAND IN 1936. Below, lighter spirits dragged a bed all over town invited ladies to try the mattress. Across it were the legends: CLEVELAND FOR A PERFECT '36-CURB SERVICE...
Unique development of the convention's lighter side was a free, three-day beer party given by Anheuser-Busch on the grounds of its famed brewery on the banks of the Mississippi. More than 100,000 guests were served by 80 bartenders who put out the brew so fast that it had to be supplied from freight cars shunted up on a siding. Host was Adolphus A. Busch Jr., whose aged grandmother Lilly, caught in her native Germany when the War broke out, was callously stripped and searched as a spy at Key West when she finally got back...