Word: mohawk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brooklynite helped organize the Dixie Club, whose object was "to cheer the other passengers by singing and drinking." Mrs. Beatrice L. Carter of Cambridge, Mass, brooded on the "premonition" which had kept her off the Mohawk and Morro Castle, warned her against the Dixie. A North Bergen, N. J. man passed the time writing his experiences for the New York Times. Sewage and sea water had by this time risen knee-deep in the staterooms. When it had spread its stench and filth into the public rooms, a band of women got down on their knees, tried to scrub...
Geologists and mapmakers will have opportunity to do fieldwork in the healthful surroundings of New England this summer at two camps maintained by the University. A shifting base in the Mohawk Valley will be the center of geological activity while the surveyors will work in the vicinity of Squam Lake in New Hampshire...
Near the northern end of the Mohawk Valley at the gateway to the lake country of upper New York is Utica (pop. 100,000), maker of one-third of all the nation's knitted underwear. Remote from a metropolis, Utica society is nothing if not clubby. Rare is the matron who does not belong to one of the town's State-famed musical societies, garden clubs, welfare organizations...
...edition contains: 1) the dramatic crisis in the office of the New York Daily News on the night of the Hauptmann verdict; 2) an electric light bulb breaking, milk dropping into a pan, photographed by a camera 150 times faster than the human eye; 3) the crash of the Mohawk and Talisman off the New Jersey shore; 4) the story of Convict Huddie Ledbetter ("Lead Belly") whose Negro songs get him pardoned for murder...
...rather than as. innovation, makes it apparent that topical cinema which contains no shots of ski-jumpers, cherry-blossom time in Tokyo, or an Atlantic City baby parade is a practicable entertainment formula. Best shot: the Talis- man's huge menacing bow, just before it slices into the Mohawk...