Word: milked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were reported to tho police. Abandoned automobiles along the streets were encased in soft bulgy white outlines. Railroad yards became chaotic as switches jammed. The Illinois Central put a long string of freight cars out along its lakefront line to serve as a snow fence. The city's milk supply was sharply reduced while suburbanites subsisted on canned goods. Lifelines had to bo stretched on Michigan Avenue. One snow-blinded man was blown to death under a bus before the Drake Hotel. Nine other deaths were somehow attributed to the storm. The Sells-Floto Circus came to town from...
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Recent years have witnessed a great burgeoning of California cults. Examples : The Rosicrucian Fellowship. In Oceanside is a fellowship founded by one Max Heindel who wrote a book called Cosmo-Conception while living in a Manhattan boarding house on a diet of milk and shredded wheat. Object of his cult: to distribute literature on Western learning, to practice spiritual healing through agents known as "Elder Brothers" and "Invisible Helpers." There are no public ceremonies; a maxim of the fellowship is in substance: "Know all things but remain unknown." Founder Heindel died in 1916. his work is now continued...
Other Americana which USA exhibited by photographic reproduction: dance marathons; flagpole sitting; California ice-cream stands in the images of derbies, igloos, milk cans, shoes; the Model T Ford; Calvin Coolidge girded for bad-horse riding; George Herman ("Babe") Ruth bussing his wife...
...gaping audience. "The six of us, three ushers in Public theatres, two in R-K-O theatres, and one of the Fox company, wake at, six each morning after six hours sleep and eat. Our daily bill of fare never changes: two dozen eggs, three quarts of milk, two cans of soup, and a loaf of bread. We run fifty miles each day, sleeping never on a bed and generally in an R-K-O theatre. At noon and at ten in the evening we have an hour for recreation when we are allowed to sit. The theatre men keep...