Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...women, and once by a pilot flying blind. It has been spanned by a glider towed by a plane. Last week it was spanned for the first time by a flying boat-a twin-motored Consolidated PBY-1 of the "type used by the Navy on its various mass junkets to Hawaii (TIME...
...with the Boston Symphony in 1930. He was such a good bassoonist that Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky soon had him soloing with the orchestra. Last year Star Bassoonist Panenka began to play so poorly that Koussevitzky demoted him, threatened to fire him unless he improved. Suing for divorce in Dedham. Mass, last week. Bassoonist Panenka blamed his failing musicianship on his wife Rosa who, he alleged, threw dishes, slammed doors and whistled while he practiced. Divorce was granted...
Despite the dogged conviction of the late, high-domed Publicist Arthur Brisbane that high-domed foreheads are a mark of superior intelligence, a mass of evidence has been assembled by scientists to show that, so far as living members of the species Homo sapiens are concerned, no connection can be traced between intellectual ability and the size or shape of the skull. Eskimos have bigger heads than civilized whites but no one argues that they are any smarter. Nevertheless it is a fact that the skull size of man in general has increased with progress up the evolutionary scale...
...years ago, returning on the lie de-France, Miss Elizabeth Ann Ahearn, 68, a devout school principal of Danvers, Mass. who had been six times received by the Pope, died of a stroke while in her bathtub. She had been sleeping daily until noon because of poor health and her death was not discovered for some 14 hours. Ship's doctors found it inadvisable to embalm the body and the captain called upon Catholic priests aboard to officiate at a sea burial. Subsequently four cousins sued the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique (French Line) for $100,000 for their mental anguish...
...pickle workers' picket line, hoisted signs declaring "The Catholic Radical Alliance supports the Heinz strikers." Horrified, the pickets begged the priests to cover the word "Radical" on their signs. Night before an election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board, the three priests appeared at a mass meeting of Heinz workers, Monsignor O'Toole telling his predominantly Catholic audience that "modern finance-capitalism" is as Godless as Communism. The Pickle Workers' Union (A. F. of L. affiliate) won the election hands down...