Word: objection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robert I. Wilson of Kansas City: The Administration's seeming intent to act on the principle that all successful business is crooked, we object to. . . . Your administration has . . . contributed to the decay of self-reliance and self-respect. . . . It has undermined confidence with its failure to keep a single campaign promise...
...life in Brooklyn where his experience with horses began as lead-boy in a Coney Island pony ranch. Manhattan rodeo audiences, whose familiarity with bronco-riding has been gained from newsreels which show riders only as they are falling off, are inclined to suppose that to fall is the object of the event. Consequently, Cowboy Schneider became a hero with the gallery. More accustomed to piebald Shetlands than to angry cow-ponies, he failed to last the minimum ten seconds in his first six attempts. Less daring than Brooklyn's famed matador, Sidney Frumkin (Sidney Franklin), Cowboy Schneider...
...translated, means late 17th or early 18th century, is considered to have been the collector's favorite. At the opposite extreme are four tiny landscapes, their lines barely visible on the ancient, faded silk. Of even greater age is a 12th century South Indian bronze statue, the most valuable object in the exhibit. Another bronze, which is mounted on a pedestal near the entrance, symbolizes the incarnation of Buddah. Every line of his face, from his furrowed brow to the tip of his pointed chin which is couched between thumb and fore-finger, helps to form an expression of deep...
Crempa's device to annoy Public Service was to tie a long string to a stone, throw it over the high-tension wires that crossed his property, pull a metal object across the wires, short-circuiting the line and putting out the lights in three neighboring towns. He did this some 21 times. Public Service fought back by charging him with malicious mischief, making him serve a six-month jail sentence in 1931. After that the company got an injunction to keep Crempa from tampering its wires. When he continued his short-circuiting pranks, the court cited...
...Oklahoma law school was the end for Pinky. The tune that was bothering him the day be received his release was something about the object of his affection. Pinky put it on paper, and soon sorority girls the nation over were playing it again and again on the victrola they hadn't used since the radio came...