Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colonel Hugh Scott, chief of the hospital staff, diagnosed as follows: "The tick-tock is caused when he moves a certain muscle in his palate. The movement of the palatal muscle carries the sound through the Eustachian tube to the middle ear.'' The muscular agitation in the roof of Veteran Hester's mouth appeared to be semivoluntary or hysterical in character, somewhat like hysterical paralysis which immobilizes an arm or leg although there is nothing organically wrong. There was some evidence that Veteran Hester could start or stop the muscular ticking at will. He was therefore advised...
...Whiz Bang. Before any script is written, it is discussed and pantomimed by the eager gagsters, who solemnly simulate Donald Duck squawking his rage when trapped under a theatre curtain, or frozen Pluto, slinking down an Alpine slope like a hunk of ice sliding off a tin roof...
...Lewisohn will be holding forth on books. In Grand Rapids, Walter Pitkin (Life Begins at Forty) will be talking on The Art of Relaxation, and in Brooklyn, Dr. Houston Peterson (The Melody of Chaos) will discuss Aldous Huxley. Martha Gellhorn talks that week in Chicago, Younghill Kang (The Grass Roof) in Wheeling, W. Va., and Captain John D. Craig (Adventure in Haiti) in Ann Arbor, Mich. In addition there will be a number of lectures belonging to the Great Question Mark school of public speaking, with David Seabury in Detroit asking What Makes Us Seem So Queer?; John T. Flynn...
...races his own horses, sometimes goes on shares with other owners. He travels with the horses, in a truck. His affection is not for the bigtime tracks but for the half-mile county fair circuit in Pennsylvania. Ohio and Illinois which horsemen know as the Frying Pan or Leaky Roof circuit. In 20 years he has acquired a vast acquaintance with this circuit's "bush-riders," carnival people, horse breeders, newspapermen, and with the character of each small-town track. Both Lee Townsend's friends and Manhattan critics last week found the new paintings he had made...
...nearly 2,000 was expected for the N. A. M. banquet which, at $8 per plate, will wind up the three-day Congress in the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria's Grand Ballroom. It will represent the greatest aggregation of white-tied wealth and power ever assembled under one roof. Scheduled to decorate the head tables along with such non-capitalists as Eddie Rickenbacker, Bishop Manning, Bruce Barton and Sinclair Lewis, are such household industrial names as Owen D. Young, Lammot du Pont, Packer Gustavus F. Swift, Soapman S. Bayard Colgate, Oilman William Stamps Parish, Camelman S. Clay Williams, Steelman Eugene...