Word: milked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Caledonia, Ohio, he used to belong to the "Chain Gang." This small village, close to Marion, Ohio, held also a band of boys calling themselves the "Stunners." The two gangs fought continually and thus became lifelong friends. Dan Crissinger of the "Chain Gang" was obliged " to milk cows before school, feed cows and chop wood after school. And one day Dan Crissinger literally "monkeyed with the buzzsaw" in his father's lumber mill. His hand was crippled so badly for farm work that his father saw the wisest thing would be to train the boy's mind. Therefore...
...Ministry of Education Building in Mexico City, refusing all recompense above a common laborer's wage. There are 138 murals in the court. Most of them describe feasts, ceremonies, daily employments, of native Indians. Some show U. S. millionaires drinking champagne (except John D. Rockefeller, who sips milk). The Mexican Minister of Finance is pic tured eating gold pieces. Little is the recognition given these crea tions; no color reproductions of them have been made. Yet, according to Lee Simonson, who has lately visited Russia to inspect the work of modernist painters, who is familiar with con temporary German...
...until 1919 that Mr. Hearst hanged himself politically. Then his New York newspapers, snarling with headlines and cruel cartoons, accused Alfred E. Smith, Governor of the state, with "killing East Side babies." The city milk supply was bad (everybody agreed to that) and babies were suffering. But a onetime Republican Legislature had taken power to regulate the problem out of the Governor's hands. Governor Smith knew this, and Mr. Hearst must have known it. Governor Smith had a genuine love for East Side babies, of which he once was one, and never forgave the publisher...
...overwhelming victory was assured. Chewing stubbornly on his cigar in a Syracuse hotel room the day before the 1922 State Convention, Governor Smith risked political extinction, defied his organization, and said he would not run on the same ticket with the man who had accused him of withholding good milk from the bottles of East Side babies. Tammany wavered. Mr. Hearst quit the field and in so doing dismissed himself forever as a factor in New York and national politics...
...ahead in America. Telephone people are so busy giving us the best telephone service that the world affords-and constantly bettering that-that they have no time to play the roles of alarm clocks, chronometers, et cetera, to the public. Telephone companies could undertake to deliver the milk, take the children to school, lock up the house, and act as burglar alarms. On the other hand, why not let telephone people keep at their development of communication-telephone, telephoto, television, and what next? H. B. MclNTYRE Division Engineer New England Tel. & Tel. Co. Providence, R. I. Strawberry Rash