Word: milked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months that such commissions have existed they have gone quietly to work. Most active have been the commissions of the three adjoining States of New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, which have had no less than ten meetings since last November on labor compacts, anti-crime measures, highway safety, milk control, stream pollution and water supply, relief for jobless transients, use of the waters of the Delaware River basin. No noteworthy compacts have yet been made, but legislative programs have been worked out and the wheels of co-operation have been started turning...
Borden was boycotted by the League's 2,000 members last month because it refused to renew its agreement with Local No. 584 of the Milk Wagon Drivers' Union. The League investigated, found in its opinion that the company had spent money to break up the union, had formed a company union without determining fairly what its employes wanted. Last week members of the League who were also Borden stockholders or who could get Borden proxies went to Jersey City to identify their protest with the interests of Borden owners...
...Alderson scrabbled in the shops of Hempstead, L. I. for cheap vegetables such as beets, carrots, potatoes. Twice a week the family also ate cheap meat, low grade eggs. A can of pears was a treat for dessert. Supper consisted of sandwiches with cocoa, tea or milk. Last week Methodist Alderson reported the five had not lost weight, had suffered no ailments worse than colds...
...Dancer Lichine keeps a daily log for the company, mourns when there is no scandal, no petty jealousy to record. In their few hours of leisure the dancers rush for a cinema, a 5 & 10? store, a cut-rate druggist to buy their cosmetics. During rehearsals they subsist on milk, eat ravenously when a performance is over. Aboard train they will buy anything from ham sandwiches and chocolate to Coca-Cola "widout...
...fortune out of Sandow, the strong man, loses it at Monte Carlo, recoups in London by a contract with Anna Held (Luise Rainer) whom he steals from under the nose of his arch rival (Frank Morgan). He gives her a dozen orchids every day, makes her famed for her milk baths, eventually marries her. At this point, The Great Ziegfeld soars from the prose of fictionized biography into the poetry of revue. For 20 minutes, a huge revolving staircase exhibits showgirls, dancers and tableaux while a tenor sings A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody. For fabulous extravagance, this sequence...