Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reprisals awaiting them in Spain have reached the refugee camps by grapevine. Typical of how news travels among the refugees was the method adopted by a recent fugitive from Catalonia. Forbidden by French authorities to make a speech in the camp, he drew a map of Spain in the sand. Inside the outline he sketched a firing squad pointing their rifles at a group of civilians. No refugee misunderstood the man's meaning...
...cabana on Miami Beach and signed paunchy, dewlapped, 235-lb. Tony for a go with Champion Joe Louis on June 29, probably in the Yankee Stadium. Delighted, Tony bit the cap off a beer bottle (see cut), galumphed off for a swim, pausing to write in the sand with a pudgy forefinger: "Tony Galento, heavyweight champ." When he porpoised back he predicted: "I'll flatten dat bum wit' one punch...
...Square and around Police headquarters later in the day seemed to indicate that the bomb was too poorly constructed to be taken seriously. The potency of the explosives remains in doubt until the State experts make their report; one witness at the scene believed that it probably contained sand...
City Councilman Michael A. ("Mickey the Dude") Sullivan reentered Harvard's political arena last Saturday night when in his capacity as a local truckman he exported a symbolical load of sand, a large horse-shoe floral wreath, three canaries and six pigeons from the Independents, conservative political group to a dance in the Hotel Statler given by the Affiliated Jewish Youth Organization to raise money to send Jewish refugees to Palestine...
...donation was arranges her by Michael P. Grace '40 of the Independents. The sand, which filled one of Sullivan's trucks, was intended to symbolize the victory which the Jews had won over the desert in the construction of Tel Aviv. On the sides of the truck were fastened placards which read "Up From the Desert" and "Now From the Wastelands." It was parked opposite the hotel during the dance...