Word: prowls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...LaFollette Committee's public laundry corporate labor relations are getting the scrubbing of their lives. The sheepishness with which labor spys and executives unfolded their shabby exploits hints that the rule of pry and prowl and deceive will be dropped in the future. General Motors, the target of the current investigation, has oozed unsavory details. Not content with ordinary spying, its men stole union files, deliberately broke the Wisconsin law for registration of detectives, and jammed up union activities. Some of its workers in Lansing read in yesterday's paper that all the officers of their union were detectives...
...almost deserted was the underground Lakeside Exhibition Hall, where visitors were invited to prowl through plaster of Paris mines, gaze at blast furnaces and Bessemer converters, store away such bits of useful knowledge as: "It takes five tons of material to make one ton of steel." Touching off a brighter spark of interest was the Hall of Progress. There, not far from a distiller's display, was the Woman's Christian Temperance Union's booth, the Ohio State Chiropractic Society's show, a $275,000 exhibit of the good works of the Federal Government...
...rebuke from the waitress "captains"--grim females who roam the floor constantly searching for any sign of relaxation or happiness, and pounce with undisguised delight upon offenders. At breakfast the waiters often stand for thirty minutes without stirring, while a dread silence fills the dining-room and the captains prowl vigilantly, hopeful of detecting an unnatural movement or some strangled whisper...
...that hardy, hairy crew who prowl for Soviet glory north of Russia's long Arctic coast line, hardiest and hairiest is jungle-bearded Otto Tulyevich Schmidt, chief editor of the Soviet Encyclopedia, professor of hydrology, chemistry and Arctic science. Two years ago the middle-aged professor led the icebreaker Sibirya-kov to a great Soviet feat: first navigation of the "northeast passage" from Archangel to Vladivostok in one year. Last August he tried it again with the icebreaker Chelyuskin, setting out this time from Murmansk, through the empty wastes of the Barents and Kara Seas. In September...
...Since then, no trace. The Press, which takes enormous pride in finding fugitives when authorities fail, continued working on the case, none more diligently than white-fringed "Jim" Barrett, whom Hearst got when the New York World expired. Editor Barrett sent Reporter Allen Norton, an old World man, to prowl about the Sherwood apartment in Brooklyn, whither Mrs. Sherwood had long ago returned without her husband. Mrs. Sherwood had moved away. Newshawk Norton dug up a neighbor who happened to remember the name on the moving van which carted the Sherwood furniture. The moving company was persuaded to open...