Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night of Nov. 16, 1917. He was at the opera, hearing Galli-Curci sing in Dinorah* in Chicago's Auditorium Theatre. Midway through the first act, Galli-Curci left the dim-lit stage. Reinhold Faust left his seat in Row K, four off the aisle. A woman saw flame, and screamed. Chicago Fireman (now Fire Commissioner) Michael J. Corrigan grabbed a bomb, yanked out its phosphorescent fuse, rushed outside before it could spray buckshot among the 2,200 people present. The perpetrator was not discovered...
Following up Mr. Chamberlain's unofficial hints, Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare conjured up an even glossier picture of peace prospects. He saw five men-Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Edouard Daladier and Neville Chamberlain-getting together to sit down at a disarmament conference table and "transform the whole history of the world."* Said Sir Samuel...
Whooping into Manhattan, which many saw for the first time, the party took over three floors of the Roosevelt Hotel, busied itself for two days with mass shopping expeditions, visits to museums, theatres, night clubs. At a luncheon where the girls badgered celebrities, Stephens' tall, brown-haired Kay Leftwich was picked by a professional models' agent as "most beautiful American schoolgirl." Third day, having lost only three overcoats a day, reported only one case of illness (cause: overeating) and absorbed considerable informal education on woman's 7,400 problems, the girls embarked in two ships for Florida...
...last week citizens of Coatesville, Pa. (pop. 14,582) saw a demonstration of a new brand of service which requires neither stops nor flying fields, were told that beginning May 12 it would be given daily to Coatesville and 54 other towns in Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Virginia and Ohio by All-American Aviation, Inc., under Government contracts...
...before the Popes became "prisoners" in the Vatican). The people waited patiently while, within, Pius XII went through long rituals. At last the Pontiff appeared on St. Peter's balcony. The great moment arrived. Cardinal Deacon Caccia-Dominioni chanted "Accipe tiaram" (Receive the tiara). The crowd below saw the Cardinal lift the gem-studded, beehive-shaped triple crown of the papacy and place it on the head of its wearer. Then the multitude dropped to its knees as Pius XII raised his hand in blessing...