Word: maine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...floating casinos," the gambling ships Rex, Texas, Showboat and Tango. Rows of scarlet neon lights picked them out from stem to stern. Largest and swankest was the Rex, an old, British-built square-rigger, formerly the collier Kenilworth. She was demasted, equipped with a 400-foot saloon on her main deck containing roulette wheels, crap boards, tables for chemin de fer, chuck-a-luck, anything else a gambler's heart might crave. Below were elegant dining rooms, bars, long rows of slot machines...
Four high-school teachers (Mabel Goddard, Louise Schafer Camp, Eva Hanks Lycan and Helen Louise Cohen Stockwell) published four graduated textbooks called American English.* Main thesis of Mesdames Goddard, Camp, Lycan and Stockwell is that there are three kinds of American English, each acceptable in its place. They illustrated this concept by the following variations on the theme, "Mother is not feeling well today": 1) dignified American English for great occasions: "Mother is ill and has retired"; 2) sack-suit American English: "Mother is sick and has gone to bed"; 3) football-field American English: "Mother is on the blink...
...drooping elms, gardened avenues, gingerbread architecture, the little fanelike spring houses, the old horse-drawn traps and flies pulled up along the main street, and above all, the shady racing park with the thoroughbreds circling under the linden back of the clubhouse before the races?all this makes Saratoga a picturesque American scene. Last week, for the 75th year since an Irish politician named John Morrissey founded the track for the spa's bored cure-takers, the annual August trek to Saratoga began...
Still hopeful, the engineers proceeded to the main experiment: a signal sent by remote control from a 100,000-watt transmitter 10 miles away at Hicksville, L. I., the antenna of which pointed toward Mars at an angle of 30°. By common consent, the "message" was a meaningless succession of dots and dashes. Astronomer Fisher and associates figured that if the signal traveled 36,030,000 miles and back at 186,000 mi. a second, the round trip would take 6 min. 28 sec. The key was tapped. For 6 min. 28 sec. everyone waited. Nothing happened. After...
...evolution of Laguna's elaborate art-shindy from the first threadbare effort of 1932, when depression-dumped artists hung their canvases on a fence facing Main Street and hoped for the best, has been gradual but steady. Five years ago, Real-estate Dealer Ropp, who is also a painter in his spare time, thought up a final terrific touch: a series of tableaux reproducing famous paintings and sculpture on a picture-frame stage. This year 44 paintings and ten pieces of sculpture are on the program. Its 54 letter-perfect, 90-second blackouts introduced by singers and dancers, separated...