Word: loops
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Politely the audience sat through scenes showing Chicago gangsters in a loop dive, other scenes of the same gangsters being converted "to the religion of Henry Ford,'' by a bawdily singing Salvation Army worker. Then the curtain rose on the third act, entitled "In the Cathedral of the New Religion." The scene was a church interior. Over the high altar hung a sign "BETHLEHEM STEEL IS BEST." In the wall were three enormous glass paintings, prominently labeled, depicting three white-robed and haloed saints. There was a mummy-like SAINT JOHN (Rockefeller), a scrawny SAINT HENRY (Ford...
...mail planes loop around the Gulf of Mexico and, since last week, shoot down to Chile. Soon he expects them to fly from Panama to Trinidad Island, then to Porto Rico. Then he will have a Gordian knot around the Caribbean Sea which any competitor will have great difficulty to hack apart...
Squiggle, loop, scratch went the fountain pen of a swart little Dictator-King Ahmed Zogu, last week, signing out the old Islamic law of Albania, signing in a new civil code based on the Swiss...
...Governor Fred W. Green has already expressed the opinion that the "habitual criminal" act is somewhat drastic in its application to liquor law offenses. It is also thought that the Michigan Legislature will amend the state prohibition laws to give such offenders as Mrs. Miller a loop hole from the "habitual criminal" penalty. If such a crime as Mrs. Miller's, for in stance, were classed as a misdemeanor rather than a felony, it would not come under the "habitual" act. The Michigan court gave its imprimatur to the law, when a few days later it upheld the life...
Gene Shank, who once held the record for looping-the-loop in an airplane, flew after a flock of blue teal in an airplane. He went 80 miles an hour; the ducks went much faster...