Word: panning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...infected ports could reach any United States seaport. However, the possibility of introduction of the disease by carrier is not being overlooked, and bacteriological search is being conducted for carriers whenever indicated. Ships from cholera-infected areas are not granted radio pratique.* Through passengers from infected areas traveling by Pan American Clipper airships will probably not be inconvenienced, since they will have completed the incubation period by the time they reach San Francisco, but those stopping off en route will be held at stopover points to complete the incubation period...
...really well-developed swing piece and those jazz critics will pan it right off. Why, they don't even understand it!" he said indignantly. The Duke holds that a fine swing tune can be interpreted in exactly the same way as classical music is delved into. He said, though, that it was too much a commercial thing. "They's a lot of money being made out of it." Used too much in an elementary form, too, he said...
...planes from the U. S., stored a few away on his ranch. Afraid to move against Cedillo because of his private army of over 10,000 men, the last in Mexico, Cardenas has placed encampments of Federal troops on the borders of the State, strung them along the new Pan American highway...
...through. He had made himself the principal spokesman of the violence, aimlessness, brutality of war and the wartime generation. Violence, aimlessness, brutality were pretty well washed up as literary material. Ergo, Hemingway too was washed up-unless he scurried around quick and found some new stream in which to pan his gold...
...Sonny maintained the famed racing establishment he inherited from his father, Harry Payne Whitney, Cousin Jock built up a stable of racers equal to the great Greentree Stable his mother inherited from his father, (William) Payne Whitney. Jock has interested Sonny in Technicolor, just as Sonny interested him in Pan American Airways. In 1932 Jock supported Sonny in an unsuccessful campaign for Congress on the Democratic ticket. Last week at Long Island's Meadow Brook Club, however, the Whitney twain split in a manner friendly but definite...