Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American public and American newspapers are certainly creatures of habit. It is the warmest night I have ever seen in Washington. And yet this talk will be referred to as a 'fireside' talk...
...lean, sparse-haired man with steel-drill eyes and a steel-trap chin flung himself on a Manhattan hotel bed, exhausted. He was Leon G. Turrou, G-Man. He had been working on the spy case 16½ hours a day for 14 weeks. He had not seen his family for four months. His doctor had told him he must rest, long and completely. So he wrote a letter of resignation to his boss, Director John Edgar Hoover...
...change which brings Miss Littlefield to Chicago next season is accompanied, according to President Whitney, by a large financial saving to the Chicago company. Incidentally, neither Mr. Whitney nor Manager Paul Longone has ever seen Miss Littlefield or her ballet perform up to this date...
...nothing, but by the time his cabinet, his constituents, a fierce young female Marxist (Ardis Gains), and his family have indicated their more or less reluctant disapproval, audiences have been treated to a symposium so full of sparkling, perfectionist common sense that they may well forget that they have seen nothing closer to physical action than a young agitator's feeble threat to break a window...
...Michigan in a 15-story building on Chicago's North Side. A popular teacher of physics and botany at Mundelein is Sister Mary Therese, member of the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary, daughter of a Chicago contractor. When Mundelein moved into its skyscraper in 1930, it was seen that only two of its three elevator shafts would be needed for vertical traffic. This gave bespectacled Sister Mary, who was then in her late 205, an idea. Last week, in the idle elevator shaft, installed and ready to operate was a 120-foot Foucault pendulum, the longest in existence...