Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sleepy-eyed crowd, many school children, heard him tell how Charleston's chemical industry had waxed fat and strong behind the protecting bulwark of the Republican tariff. A lusty cheer rolled out when the President recalled that he, too, had once worked with pick & shovel in a mine...
English friends of mine insist that T. M. King George and Queen Mary have seven children, two of which are imbecile in mentality. I am also told that the affliction of the ex-royal household of Spain, haemophilia, exists in the English family...
PETER ASHLEY-DuBose Heyward-Farrar &Rinehart ($2.50). The Civil War, a rich mine of historical romance with plenty of still untapped veins, is beginning to be reworked again. Taking as his subject the four tense months in Charleston that culminated in the bombardment of Fort Sumter, Author Heyward has brought to light a whole shining age. Peter Ashley-a carefully unimpassioned but compelling tale that even Abolitionist-grandsired readers will be loath to leave-makes vivid and convincing a crucial scene in U. S. history...
...long ago been affected by the death of his only son, Lieut. Edward Baker, an aviator shot down in the War. Dr. Baker capitulated completely to his striking students. Said he: "I have tried to win their friendship but I have been unsuccessful. Sometimes I think the fault is mine. ... I hope my resignation will benefit the college...
...giastic interpretation of an oldtime Shaker meeting; a marionet show in which Alfred Emanuel Smith, Herbert Hoover and John Davison Rockefeller jig together with a chorus of little oil cans. Tunes: "Wouldja for a Big Red Apple?", "You're Not Pretty But You're Mine," "Satan's Little Lamb." When Ladies Meet (by Rachel Croth- ers; John Golden, producer). Everything Mary Howard (Frieda Inescort) did bore the hallmark of success. Her novels sold, the ivy on her Manhattan terrace grew, her life and friends operated efficiently. Yet she was lonely. Her closest male companion, an easy-going...