Word: origin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blaze was of obscure origin. At 8.50, three details of firemen from the Brattle St. station, arrived at the door of Dunster F-44 to find the study a haze of smoke. With smarting eyes, their leader discerned the cause of the smoke; a sofa in the far corner was oxidizing rapidly, crackling like a good log fire on a winter's night. A consultation was held; the sofa was tossed from the window. And, as the inhabitants of Dunster jeered, the firemen danced their weird tribal dance around the blazing pyre...
...Soviet worker, perpetual purging of the Party; the political worker, the accusation of lukewarmness; the scientific worker, the accusation of idealism; the technical worker, the accusation of sabotage. "We live in an epoch of great fear. Fear forces the talented intelligentsia to deny their mother ... to falsify their social origin. . . . Man is becoming suspicious, secretive, disloyal, slovenly, unprincipled. Fear breeds idleness, train delays, interrupted production, general poverty and hunger. No one does anything without orders, without reference to the blackboard, without threat of arrest or deportation...
Died. David Lamar, circa 70, "Wolf of Wall Street." tipster, swindler, speculator, jailbird; of heart disease; in an unpretentious Manhattan hotel; age, origin and real name unknown. He appeared in Manhattan in the mid-nineties, fell in with an aged utilitycoon who soon lost five-sixths of a $6,000,000 fortune, soon blossomed out as a bigtime stock manipulator with a taste for hot birds, cold bottles, fast horses and the flashiest Broadway cabarets. So notorious were his corporate nuisance suits that J. P. Morgan the Elder denounced him as "vermin...
...Nazi tricks to evade the boycott. On a glove wrathfully displayed by Lawyer Untermyer the words "Made in Germany" appear only on the inner surface of one finger tip. Holding up a doll, Boycotter Untermyer cried : "You have to undress this lady to determine the country of her origin. That is not very nice. The stamp 'Made in Germany' is under her dress. Such tactics are smuggling!" To put the anti-Nazi efforts further on a non-sectarian plane, Gentile James G. McDonald, the League of Nations' recently appointed High Commissioner for German Refugees, exhorted...
...Mortals. Actor Nugent gets the best laugh in the play by the simple device of holding his breath. This causes him to grow red with apoplectic indignation in the third act when his wife tells his dinner guests, as he told hers the night before, about his humble origin...