Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United Pressman cornered him as he returned from a walk on the beach with two neighborhood children. Standing on the sand, wearing a blue shirt open at the throat, blue trousers, white shoes and no socks, the NRAdministrator unburdened his mind...
...when a juror went mad. The third Hyde trial ended with a jury disagreement in 1913. For four years more the Swopes egged the prosecutors on, then weary of the expensive procedure they agreed to let the indictment against Dr. Hyde be dropped. Dr. Hyde took a job loading sand trucks in Kansas City, later moved to rural Lexington where he had a small practice...
...more outlandish than everything else in the mountain-walled bowl of sand between China, Russia and India was Dr. Khalid Sheldrake, Moslem medical missionary to Moslems who started life as the son of a British pickle manufacturer. Last winter several tribal chiefs from Chinese Turkistan, where every tribe hates and fears every other tribe, called on Dr. Sheldrake in his Peiping hotel and invited him to be their overlord. The red-fezzed, toothbrush-mustached Briton accepted and announced that he was King of the entire Chinese province of Sinkiang, of some 3,000,000 Moslem, Buddhist, Confucianist, Taoist souls speaking...
...before the royal family could get to the coronation city of Khotan on the southern rim of the Taklamakan Desert, the troops of General Shen Shih-tsai, young Chinese provincial governor, swooped down on King Khalid with planes furnished by Soviet Russia. Last week a brief dispatch from the sand bowl disposed of the pickle maker's ambitious son: "Provincial troops overthrew the insurgent Moslem forces of Dr. Khalid Sheldrake. He was reported to have fled in defeat toward India, following the wholesale surrender of his troops...
...tragic afternoon Frau Alwine Dollfuss, safe at Riccione on the Adriatic as the house guest of Donna Rachele Mussolini, showed her babies, Rudolf and Eva, how to make sand pies. She had taken them in to supper and put them sleepily to bed before she learned that in Vienna 144 brutal young men had contrived the assassination of her husband in a manner which, said the outraged London Times, "makes the name of Nazi stink in the nostrils of the world...