Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peculiar properties, he described his own experience after taking a handful of reefers (marijuana cigarets) as an experiment. He crawled into a bottle of ink, stayed there 200 years, took a peep over the bottle's neck, ducked back and wrote a book about what he saw. When the book was done, he popped out of the inkwell, shook his wings, flew around the world seven times...
...people. There, warmed against the sharp spring air by gas heaters, and warmed against a world weak in faith by the smiling enthusiasm of their pastor, they heard him say: "God practically dropped this tent on us out of the sky. Isn't it wonderful? I never saw a tent that looked so pretty. . . . All my life I've taken communion out of little silver cups. But this Sunday we're going to have the great joy of taking it from paper cups...
...midnight last week attendants at Miami municipal airport smelled smoke, then saw it streaming from the field's big hangar. Before Miami's fire department could get into action the hangar was a furnace, airplane gas tanks began to pop. Soon the red-hot roof fell. When dawn broke, a cloud of smoke a mile in diameter covered a heap of debris, the charred skeletons of 22 private planes valued at $508,000. Among them were an Autogiro, taxiplane and big machines belonging to Gar Wood, James Mattern, Alexander P. de Seversky...
...capitalists, The Robber Barons (1934), Josephson wrote of men who "spoke little and did much"-Jay Gould, Jim Fisk, Collis Huntington, Morgan, Rockefeller. In The Politicos he writes of men who did as little as possible and spoke all too much. For the period after the Civil War saw the flowering of the spellbinders, the men who, when trapped in some snide deal, escaped by waving the bloody shirt, denouncing Jeff Davis, pulling out all the stops in tearful eulogies to the Union dead...
...Passos saw famine and typhus in the Near East, talked over Bolshevik atrocities with Russian refugees, Turkish atrocities with Greeks and Armenians, English duplicity with Arabs. In Spain he was startled to hear a mountain peasant exclaim, "America is the world of the future." In Arabia a native told him owlishly that the English "were united and used their guns only to shoot strangers, while the Arabs were always squabbling among themselves and were very nice to strangers." Hating high-flown sentiments in all forms (he read Juvenal on the way to Damascus, did not like it because "I smell...