Word: moving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...baffled spirits move in long retreat...
...Square Automat, which was handy to union headquarters and a good place to attract a crowd. Once the pickets egged on the police by lying down on the sidewalk in droves. Last month they tried marching in a column of 100 at the height of dinner-hour traffic, a move which ended, as it was supposed to, in a pitched battle. Eight policemen were hurt and scores of pickets arrested, including a girl who was held for assault for kicking a cop in the shins. Only contribution to the tactics of industrial warfare was the part played by pickets already...
After 18 months of shellfire, nervous shock, cold, and no peanuts at all, Pancho the elephant, largest and most inedible survivor of Madrid's El Retire Park Zoo, last week closed his little eyes and died of malnutrition. Next day the Leftist Govern-ment in Barcelona made a move it had threatened for over a year. To solve the food problem in Madrid, it ordered that all civilians not engaged in necessary war work must leave that city within 30 days or be evacuated, "by force if necessary." The necessity of using force seemed remote, for the Government...
Presents: from His Majesty's Govern-ment a $100,000 mansion, unexpectedly delayed in construction so that Paul & Margaritas had to move into a friend's house in Athens this week, before starting on their wedding trip; from His Majesty's Cabinet & Armed Forces a $10,000 emerald & diamond necklace; from the Greek Royal Yacht Club a yacht; from the President of France a tablecloth; from the Duke & Duchess of Windsor a gift (nature undisclosed) explained by announcing that "the Duke was an old friend of Prince Paul...
...return. Every year some 300 trouping golfers jaunt from town to town, from coast-to-coast, making three-day stands in a carefully planned route known as the "grapefruit circuit" (see map). Starting at sporty Pinehurst with the Mid-South Open in November [No. 1 on the map], they move down the coast one jump ahead of the thermometer, spend the month of December shuttling around Greater Miami and Nassau [tournaments this year: $10,000 Miami-Biltmore Open (No. 2), $3,500 Nassau Open (No. j), $3,000 Miami Open (No. 4), $4,000 Holly-wood Beach Hotel Open...