Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...immediately launched a $1,000,000 campaign running for eight days in 1,713 dailies, 2,139 weeklies, 426 college and financial papers, which promised prizes of $50,000 for the best 200-word letters on Camel's new cellophane wrapper. Last week's activity in Winston-Salem seemed proof of Erwin, Wasey's costly pudding...
...wine confiscated in an outhouse behind the Aratoga Inn, near Cairo, where Diamond was host. And it began to appear that the bullet-riddled gangman, whose life was at first despaired of, would live to stand trial. Amazed at his recuperative powers, said his doctor: "He's lead proof. They can't kill...
Citizens of Troy, N. Y. last week organized under Editor Rutherford Hayner of the Troy Times to press a claim that the original Uncle Sam was a Trojan. They asked the Federal Government to recognize their claim with a suitable memorial. For proof they pointed to a simple grave on the hillside overlooking the city in which lie the bones of one Samuel Wilson (1768-1854). Tall, spare, dignified, kindly, he, said the people of Troy, was the original Uncle Sam. The gist of their claim, based on old family letters, was as follows...
Tarnished Lady is so bad it keeps the audience from noticing Miss Bankhead. Her warm low-pitched voice and her pretty face and figure register well. There are even moments vhen, in spite of her terrific struggle with her material, it seems probable that she can act, though for proof the U. S. will have to wait for her next picture. Donald Ogden Stewart wrote this one, which seems, and in all likelihood is, a rejected draft of his famed Laughter. The framework of the two is identical-a young woman marries a rich man for his money and then...
...Chicago last week Joseph M. Lansinger, publisher of College Humor and Real Detective Tales, announced that the June number of the latter magazine would present documented proof of this story...