Word: overlies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In lumberjacks and jeans, in skating skirts and golf socks, in ski pants and starched white spats, 100-odd socialites gathered last week on the rambling estate of Capitalist Oakleigh Thorne at Millbrook, N. Y. Sniffing the crisp Dutchess County air, they galumphed over the meadows, up & down hill, tripping...
When the picture was over, the audience applauded loudly. But coming out from under its spell, some of them must have wondered if Director Frank Caprahad been reading late great Secretary of State John Hay's outburst to Henry Adams: "You can't use tact with a Congressman...
In New York City, every week, some 30,000 people attend meetings which Jews do well to avoid. At the meetings, held by groups with names like "Christian Front" and "Christian Mobilizers," the streets of upper Manhattan and The Bronx resound with cries of "Buy Christian," "Down with the Jews...
Starlings have long memories, sometimes tossing off the calls of summer birds in the dead of winter. Moreover, like humans, they occasionally go crazy over a popular bird tune number, most of the birds in a murmuration repeating it over & over until at last they get tired of it and...
In the U. S. Patent Office are sheaves of plans for the use of television in war-reconnaissance planes which will transmit the lay of enemy land as they fly over it, spot hits for the artillery, televise through clouds and fog by picking up earth-radiated infra-red rays...