Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Informed that a spy was taking pictures of the plant, Watertown, Mass, police sped to the U. S. Army's Watertown Arsenal. There beside the railroad tracks, Graflex in hand, was Lucius Beebe, who elaborately explained that he was waiting for Boston & Albany's 601 to come by so that he could take its picture for his forthcoming book on American railroading...
...wears a general's star. Ordinary chaplains have no rank, but a captain's pay, wear religious garb behind the lines, khaki at the front. By special dispensation from Rome, all Catholic aumƦniers and other front-line priests may hear confession, give extreme unction, sing mass at portable altars, at any time under any conditions...
...America's Cup defense, was soundly beaten by both Yankee and Rainbow; besides a fox-hunting estate in Pau, France, he owns a Paris town house, the $2,000,000 "Marble Palace" in Newport, R. I., the 1,000-acre, many-roomed "Princemere" in Pride's Crossing, Mass.; in 1933 he offered to Franklin Roosevelt a plan for reorganizing U. S. railroads into seven regional systems, for a claimed saving of $743,000,000 annually, saw it thrown out because it would involve firing thousands of railroad employes; in 1934 he paid some $15,000 damages for clopping...
Driving through Boston, Mass., one James J. Behr listened attentively to a broadcast of Information Please, obediently shut his eyes when he heard Master of Ceremonies Clifton Fadiman ask the guest experts to shut their eyes and tell the color of their ties. The experts knew and the sponsors paid nothing. Mr. Behr, who also knew, hit the car ahead of him, paid...
...Maiden, Mass., Donald W. Lovett pummeled a motor vehicle inspector who stopped him and asked to see his driving license. Explained Driver Lovett to the court: "He didn't say please...