Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special moved north he saw out of the window more & more evidence of the storms which harried the South earlier in the week. He met the real disaster late at night when his train halted for half an hour at Gainesville where a tornado had devasted the main square of the town. There he appeared on the back platform around which 2,000 silent townspeople were grouped. "My friends," declared President Roosevelt, "I hope to come back some day at a less tragic time. . . . I shall always be very proud of the spirit you have shown...
...Orleans, three big parties, organized respectively by the Times-Picayune, the Tulane University School of Journalism and her friends, were to honor her four decades of newspaper work, during which time her journalistic salad had grown from a side dish in one New Orleans paper to a main course in 200 throughout the world. Hired in 1896 for $5 a week and now retained for $70,000 a year as personal counselor to some 13,000,000 readers, Dorothy Dix unquestionably has become the world's No. I newspaper confidante...
...Houses into "rabbit-warrens" on Mt. Auburn and Plympton Streets. Restrictions placed upon the number of men from each social group allowed to enter the Houses has led to this extremely deplorable situation, and the University must realize that certain modifications will have to be made, if the main goal of the cross-section is to be maintained...
...accepted rumor that the Goldwyn boys spent $500,000 an hour on this supreme effort. The saga of Ziegfeld commences at the Chicago World's Fair, where the master is offering the muscles of the mighty Sandow. Even at this early stage in his development "Ziggie" realizes that his main theme is a rhapsody on the theatrical potentialities of the female form. He brings Anna Held to America and makes her a national idol by immersing her daily (in private) in milk baths. He then marries the beautiful Anna (magnificently played by Luise Rainer) and moves ahead with the production...
Thus Glidden is opening a drive which will last until a week from today when the Album goes to press. Advertising, House solicitors, and statistics are the main lines of attack. Since the Album only prints the number of copies desired, men who do not enter their subscriptions this week are liable to sacrifice their opportunity to own one of these volumes...