Word: litter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clean 'em up and they dirty 'em again."-TIME, March 26). Head of the Clean City Committee is Mrs. Herbert Shipman. lively widow of the late Suffragan Bishop of New York. Not to be outdone by the O. C. A., Mrs. Snipman has now written a ballet, Litter in the Street, presented last week in Town Hall as the feature of a Children's Spring Festival. Children in Daisy Blau's Dance Group pretended to be street dirt while two pianos played jazzy music by Will Irwin, and Howard Phillips, a radio tenor, declaimed Mrs. Shipman...
newly washed with rain. We want litter cans on every block...
...deserted mansion. But Davis is not true to the romance of "swords and roses"; he fumbles a little psychopathology into the plot, and his play quavers ridiculously for two acts between Eugene O'Neill and a minstrel show. At the last the dying hero is borne out on a litter, while an offstage chorus chants "Oh, Lord, Ah'm comin'" or some like...
...motormakers which brought their glistening yearlings to the Show last week, proudest was General Motors. Its litter was six-a full line. Apple of its eye was Cadillac, its high-priced line at $2,395 for the V8, $3,995 for the V-12's and $6,650 for the V16. Built only on order, the V16 remained a limited edition. All Cadillacs have independent front-wheel suspension ("knee- action...
...contest this rude apostrophe before the end of Jezebel. Preston falls ill and blubbers about her in delirium. His wife is ready to accompany him to a quarantine island, from which no visitor returns alive, but it is Miss Julie who shuffles tragically along beside Preston's litter on its way to the lazaretto while her '"niggers" sing sad spirituals...