Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great program of reorganization (TIME, Jan. 25), the rebellious bloc engineered amendments which emasculated it. As though to symbolize the anonymous standing votes by which this deed was accomplished, lights suddenly winked out, plunging the House into darkness. When light was restored and Administration leaders had forced a roll-call vote, the timid rebels shrank from recording their insubordination, killed the amendments by 216-to-164, sent the President's bill intact to the Senate...
Rebirth. When Business is bad, railroad business is worse. When Business improves, so does railroad business. The U. S. railroad business began to roll out of its rusty industrial siding two years ago. By the beginning of last year it had clacked on to the main line and was chuffing up the hump of recovery. Last week, as 1936 came to an accounting close, dispatches of good news were coming in from all over the nation's rail system and the roar and smoke of recovery filled...
...Helen of Troy, New York (1923), Beggar on Horseback (1924), The Cocoannts (1925), The Royal Family (1927), Animal Crackers (1928), June Moon (1929), Once in a Lifetime (1930), The Band Wagon (1931), Of Thee I Sing (1931), Dinner at Eight (1932), Let 'em Eat Cake (1933), Merrily We Roll Along (1934), First Lady (1935). This season George Kaufman was once more Broadway's Man-of-the-Year when he turned out two more smashing box-office successes: Stage Door (with Edna Ferber) and You Can't Take It With You (with Moss Hart). The latter is Kaufman...
...body circumference, wing spread of three feet. ¶ Unhappiest breed were Parlor Tumblers. Equipped with the determination of homing pigeons but utterly unable to fly, their efforts to get off the ground cause them to somersault backward. Single Tumblers flop over once, Double Tumblers twice. Parlor Rollers will roll 75 ft. backward without stopping. ¶ Most numerous were 600 Kings-large, white birds with big, bright red feet. Handsomest were varicolored, round-breasted Modenas. Rarest were white Frill-backs, a breed recently restored to standards of show excellence, with small up-curling feathers on wings and back. The National Pigeon...
...prosperous engineer. When he lost his job and his money in 1930, he got along by selling gadgets, doing odd jobs like mending furniture and building his friends' fishponds in the Philadelphia suburbs. The first Monopoly board was a bit of oilcloth left over from a roll used to cover a kitchen table. In 933> two years after he had designed the game, Inventor Darrow put it on the market privately. Since Parker Brothers took it over in the spring of 1935, Monopoly, first smash hit perfected by an amateur parlor-game inventor in 35 years, has been translated...