Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seeking Separation. Mrs. Grace Mackay Tibbett, 34, from Lawrence Tibbett, 34, Metropolitan Opera and concert baritone, cinemactor (New Moon, Prodigal). Married in 1919 after a courtship that began when they were both students at Los Angeles' Manual Arts High School, they are the parents of twin 11-year-olds, Lawrence Mackay & Richard Ivan. Said she: "Fame and family happiness are not consistent. It is not anything more than that...
...elder Brisbane bought at advertising rates a front-page column in Horace Greeley's New York Tribune, wrote therein every day for two years of Fourier's plans for the development of small cooperative communities (called Associations), in which manual labor should be dignified, social distractions nonexistent. At Freehold, N. J. Albert Brisbane founded such a community, forerunner of famed Brook Farm at West Roxbury, Mass...
...Convention manual stands for information and not for inspiration. I feel that at this time silence is golden. No mantle of Elijah has fallen upon my shoulders. As regards Prohibition, I begin to fear that as a nation we are rapidly losing all sense of proportion. . . . God forbid! Are all virtues, all qualities, all ideals, all ability, forcefulness, statecraft, integrity and record of a candidate to be swept aside by the question: 'Is he Wet or is he Dry?' And yet we are not a primitive people...
...Conferees emitted no vaporings about jobs the blind can fill efficiently. The U. S. delegates listed 206 separate kinds of jobs. The Europeans added a few more. Occupations range from the mental (lawyers, writers, singers, salesmen), through the semi-manual (osteopaths, masseurs, typists), to the manual (farmers, carpenters, mechanics). The blind are peculiarly deft at assembling parts. A profession whose unexpected obviousness makes it surprising is Miss Emma Most's of San Francisco. She is a coffee-taster...
...bakers use yeast) and that the health of U. S. bread-eaters has never been impaired in consequence. The use of baking powder, they declared, is an "efficient method," a "laborsaving device" and a ''time-saving expedient'' because it makes possible the elimination of manual kneading...