Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...account books she kept as a bride, has always been a shrewd Hooverizer. She believes in such sustaining but economical standbys as baked beans, meat loaf, prune pudding and oatmeal. Last spring she entertained Mrs. Vincent Astor and some other ladies with a White House luncheon of which the main course was a soup made of spinach, dandelion greens and bacon grease-a dish reputedly in great favor with Andrew Jackson. She asked her guests afterwards if they did not think such a meal sufficient for midday. Some of the ladies politely hinted that they did not. Beaming as brightly...
Retail Stores must be on the street level, on a main thoroughfare in a business centre, not less than 700 ft. apart (1.500 ft. apart in cities over 1,000,000 pop.) and not less than 200 ft. from any church or school. Nothing but liquor may be sold in the space set aside for that purpose. No one dealer or company may have more than one retail licence (thus ruling out chain stores). No one otherwise interested in the liquor business may have a retail licence and no signs may be displayed in the store advertising any brand...
Equally embarrassing to Soviet Foreign Minister Litvinoff was the U. S. "Workers' Party" (Communist) which persisted in announcing during the New York mayoralty campaign that one of its main objectives is "Militant support of the Soviet Union!" Finally in Moscow last week the inopportune death of cackling, seamy-skinned Comrade Sen Katayama, 74-year-old Japanese member of the Comintern Executive Committee, forced Dictator Stalin to make open display of the fact that he is still pro-Comintern (i.e. pro-World Revolution), despite his resignation from the Comintern Committee...
...great mob to a lynching mood. Bonfils was the first editor to smell the Teapot Dome disturbance, and the clothespin on his nose cost half a million dollars. When the story broke, Bishop Johnson said of the Post "Denver is the only town in the world where the main sewer enters every home." When a Senate investigating committee had kept Bonfils on the stand for three hours, he stood bolt upright, shook his finger at Senator Penrose, shouted "The Denver Post has the largest per capita circulation in the world!", and would say no more. POLLUX...
...both the Union libraries, Dean Delmar Leighton today announced, has shown a considerable increase over last year. During September and October of this year an attendance of 5980 has been recorded in the main reading room. During the same period last year the number was 5248. This constitutes an average increase of 19 each...