Word: m
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...1920s she had led a series of violent raids until she was sued for smashing up a soft-drink parlor. She was also imprisoned for a year for trying to collect $10,000 on a forged note from the estate of an eccentric Le Mars lawyer named T. M. Zink. This year Mrs. Knox knocked out the teeth of a relief official at a meeting where she was protesting the laying off of Sumner Knox. When neighbors began to note the absence of Mr. Knox and Mrs. Trow, Le Mars grew suspicious...
...Broadway, Maurice Evans' uncut Hamlet, which runs from 6:30 to 11:20 p. m., is no treat for standees. The night the show acquired its first standees Producer Evans was so elated that he invited all four of them to eat as his guests during the dinner intermission...
...Manhattan's newest columnist, pert Dorothy Kilgallen, who last week took over the Journal and American's "Voice of Broadway," immediately implored producers to ring up their curtains at 9:30 p. m., on the grounds that she is "an eating girl" and, as things stand, goes to the theatre half starved. "Or else," she wound up, "send me sandwiches with my tickets." If her suggestion were adopted, critics on morning newspapers would have only 15 minutes to write their reviews...
...diseases conquered by sulfanilamide are puerperal sepsis (childbed fever), gonorrhea, meningitis, and streptococcus sore throat. Last week in The Lancet Dr. Sidney Campbell Dyke, consulting pathologist at the Royal Hospital at Wolverhampton, and his assistant, Dr. G. C. K. Reid, reported that tablets of a new sulfanilamide compound, M. & B. 693, short for 2-(para-aminobenzenesulphonamido) pyridine, had brought about a "speedy recovery" in eight cases of lobar pneumonia...
...Corporation's decision, the Committee continued its organizing activity under Robert E. Lane '39, chairman. A legal expert in Boston has been consulted on the technicalities of securing affidavits. A telegram pleading for an affidavit for a Vienna Kreisler Prize winner, threatened with jail, was received by Ernest M. Jondorf '41, Chairman of the Affidavit Committee, from a Long Island, New York, family...