Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oakland, Calif., Miss Earhart's publicity-minded husband, George Palmer Putnam, went to comfort Mrs. Beatrice Noonan. Said he: "I have a hunch they are sitting somewhere on a coral island. . . . Fred's probably out sitting on a rock now catching their dinner with those fishing lines they had aboard. There'll be driftwood to make a fire. . . ." When this failed to cheer Mrs. Noonan, Mr. Putnam snapped: "It's this way. Bee. One of two things have happened. Either they were killed outright-and that must come to all of us sooner or later...
...Point section down near the conflux of the Monongahela and the Allegheny; Julius David Stern, radical Jewish publisher of Philadelphia's Record. These gentlemen could hardly help noticing Convert Earle since he plunked down $35,000 to help them try, and almost succeed, in carrying rock-ribbed Republican Pennsylvania for the Democrats in 1932. Nor could Franklin Roosevelt fail to take notice of him. He was made Minister to Austria. Two years later Mr. Guffey & friends called back Minister Earle, still without any political savoir-faire and even without the ability to make a decent speech, to nominate...
First white invaders of California found huge herds of sea lions on almost every rock. After 1860 the creatures were killed by thousands for their hides and oil. Soon it became unprofitable to hunt them and by the turn of the century they were on the increase again. Fishermen claimed that they ate great quantities of salmon and damaged many nets. Zoologists doubted this. One professor opened a number of sea lion stomachs, found nothing but squid. Fishermen were in the saddle, however, and forced the Fish & Game Commission to start slaughtering. In 1909 some measure of protection was provided...
...Cradle Will Rock is an artistically and politically radical opera which has been in rehearsal two months. Because it had been written by talented composer Marc Blitzstein, directed by prodigious, 22-year-old Orson Welles and mounted with singular care and beauty, 18,000 people had bought tickets for the performances supposed to begin last week. When at the last minute the Federal Theatre cut down on its activity by postponing all openings beyond July 1, liberals like Archibald MacLeish, Sidney Howard, Lewis Mumford begged the Administration to make an exception for The Cradle Will Rock...
...Cradle Will Rock reports, with controlled and eloquent class hatred, a steel strike. Mr. Mister is the mill owner. He corrupts a doctor, bulldozes an editor, terrorizes a college president and arranges for the assassination of a labor organizer. Mrs. Mister gives a clergyman his weekly dole and tells him what to say in his sermons. She keeps a painter and a musician on her string. The two sing a song which goes...