Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...start in politics in 1914 when the late "Sunny Jim" Rolph, then Mayor of San Francisco, appointed him to the city's Playground Commission. When Mayor Rolph got to be Governor in 1930 he appointed Florist Rossi to the mayoralty. Mayor Rossi survived by a narrow margin an election in 1931 in which the city charter was changed, making him a "strong mayor." Last week he needed all the power at his command...
...London, when drought shrank the Thames to a narrow stream, Lady Plimsoll painted a thin green line around the inside of her bathtub, six inches above the bottom. Like the original "Plimsoll line" which her late great father-in-law Samuel Plimsoll devised to mark the depth below which a ship must not be loaded, Lady Plimsoll's line decreed high water mark in her bathtub. By last week all over England, patriots were summoning painters to draw Plimsoll lines on their tubs...
...change but not overestimating its value. Archbishop McNicholas and his committee were by no means disposed to cease their labors. They approved formation of the Legion of Decency's national council, turned campaign details over to a committee of priests. Said Archbishop McNicholas : "We are not fussy and narrow about entertainment. We have not objected to many things that have worried other people. But in this matter where we touch youth, we feel that we must act to save them...
Cinemactress Mae West: "I am really a rather narrow-minded woman. When my brother was running around with a woman who drank I was worried to death and got him interested in a gymnasium and other things. I do not drink or smoke. I do not go to Hollywood parties. . . . Sometimes I work so hard that I fall asleep at dinner...
...young men of the ghetto. One day a gentile woman on her way through the ghetto paused to give a child a piece of candy. Instantly the ingelach (little boys) and mädelach (little girls) swarmed around her, squawling for candy. A pious Jew stopped in the narrow, stall-lined street, looked into her face, then shouted, "Don't eat the gentile candy. It's poisoned...