Word: opener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taffy-pulling contest. The Progressives maintain that John Lewis imported 10,000 miners to crush the revolt. The Progressives themselves on one occasion massed 15,000 for a march on Franklin County. Pitched battles were fought with as many as 300 armed miners engaged. Hundreds were wounded in open conflict and no less than 21 Progressives were murdered. Trains were dynamited, a bridge burned, and bombings became as common as rain. The state of law enforcement in the Illinois coal fields apparently is such that little attention is paid to shootings or murders. Last month 41 Progressive Unionists and sympathizers...
...cent response?" Soviet officials explained that in Russia, under Stalin's new "Most Democratic Constitution in the World," the urge to vote is so strong that at thousands of polling places crowds of voters waited through much of the previous night for the polls to open. These earliest comers were reported in most cases to be elderly men and women. Vigorous young Russians, confident of being able to shove through the crowds, mostly arrived "late"-that is not until early morning. Many an old woman was reported to have exclaimed after casting her ballot, "I had a terrible headache...
...stirring anti-War sentiments were lacking in the Congress' open meeting, the exhibition of paintings by 138 Congress artists held concurrently on Fifth Avenue more than made up for it. Dedicated "to the peoples of Spain and China," this show was devoted almost exclusively to excoriations in paint of the contemporary conquerors and their technique. Most were better as expressions of hot feeling than as paintings. A few, by Max Weber, Nathanial Dirk, Arnold Blanch, Victor Candell, William Cropper, Mervin Jules, were excellent as both. None equaled a set of etchings by Picasso called Dreams and Lies of Franco...
Walt Disney wears the Hollywood uniform: lounge coats, open-throated shirts, fancy sweaters. His thick, dark brown hair, which dips to a widow's peak slightly less emphatic than Robert Taylor's, has a long top lock which Disney wraps around his finger while he talks. At a loss for words, he often resorts to pantomime. He works until six or seven o'clock every night, in busy times works round the clock. He drives his Packard roadster home to dinner, plays with his baby daughters, Diane Marie and Sharon Mae, and goes to bed. Hollywood hotspots...
...locked, glass-fronted bookcases. This is the White House Library. Spacious but bare, it has only a few hundred books on the white-framed shelves designed to hold almost 2,000. Last week a committee representing the American Booksellers Association carried to Washington 200 more volumes for the great open spaces on the White House shelves-a collection of 34 biographies...