Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With melodramatic swiftness, Senator La Follette shifted from policemen to victims. From a doctor came testimony that total casualties, aside from the dead, were 40 wounded by bullets, some 60 beaten. Seven of the ten dead had been shot in the back. Mrs. Lupe Marshall, a 30-year-old, little, Mexican-born social worker at Chicago's Hull House, told how she had been clubbed, put in a patrol wagon with 16 other wounded, none of whom had had first-aid treatment...
...without provocation, as neither he nor anyone else has ever seriously contended. Senator La Follette's thesis was that the provocations did not justify the subsequent brutality. The Paramount cameraman, Orlando Lippert, testified that he was changing lenses when the action began, though he claimed he missed only seven seconds of the battle...
Life Camps take children only from the Family Service Welfare agencies of New York City. On arrival at camp, the child finds a minimum of regimentation. He joins a group of seven and takes up residence in a structure designed to stimulate his imagination and responsibility. It may be a covered wagon or an Indian tepee, a stone village or a treehouse. Each group, under a counselor, is virtually free to make its own rules, divide its duties and camp work, find its especial talents, fun, and paths of exploration...
...Lilliput contains ten articles (Sam Goldwyn, Upton Sinclair), ten stories (Liam 0'Flaherty, Sacha Guitry), ten cartoons ("I think there's been a mistake, you've sent a gout up to maternity"), 40 photographs (John D. Rockefeller Sr., nudes, still life, Mussolini holding his nose), seven color plates (Hogarth's The Graham Children, Correggio's Venus, Mercury and Cupid). Editor is Hungarian-born Stefan Lorant, capable but not popular in Fleet Street. He first made a name on the Münchner Illustrierte Presse, was tossed into jail for six months when Hitler came...
This year's redesigning of the pretzel-shaped Roosevelt Raceway at Westbury, L. I., scene of the 300 mi. George Vanderbilt Cup automobile race, was intended to encourage more thrilling, more dangerous speeding, confine the dull, slow driving to seven turns. But on the simplified course this week's Cup contest resolved itself into a grinding 90-lap parade much like last year's except that this time specially-built German, as well as Italian, cars thundered steadily and safely down the straightaways...