Word: messe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democratic nominee on a celluloid campaign button. An operation de-buttoned James O'Toole Jr. ¶ Into G. 0. P. headquarters in Manhattan switched a well-dressed woman who loudly exclaimed: "I'm for Hoover! I'm for him because he got us into this mess and I think he ought to be made to get us out." ¶ Daniel Willard. president of Baltimore & Ohio: "I expect to vote for President Hoover because I believe it's better for the country." ¶ To Atlantic City went Christian ("Red" ) Cagle, famed Army halfback, to address a Republican...
Thirty minutes after the Corps has entered the mess hall, the regimental commander calls the battalions to attention and dismisses them. Every man leaves the mess hall immediately...
Dinner is at six-fifteen, the battalions forming and marching to the mess hall as for breakfast and luncheon. Call to Quarters sounds at seven-fifteen. At that time every man must be in his room to prepare his lessons for the next day. Then at ten o'clock the bugles resound for the last time in the area...
Cultured Arabians consider Bagdad's so-called "Arabian Nights" a mere mess of dirty stories of no literary merit. First collected by a Frenchman, they were chaperoned into English literature by Sir Richard Burton, explore-translator who, like many a member of the Explorer's Club, had a taste for zestful tales...
...McAlester Penitentiary is an old man whose paintings hang in several offices of the Oklahoma State Capitol, in the prison mess hall and the warden's house. In 1898 Charles Matthew Conrad Maass suspected his wife of putting poison in his breakfast pork and sauerkraut. He fired three charges of buckshot into her. In his 33 years in jail he has painted hundreds of pictures, sold not one. Like Dannemora's artists, he too copies his pictures, sometimes from memory. Called the Mad Artist, he is irrational except for his ability to copy pictures. His subjects include...