Word: signed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Late last night a large crowd gathered to observe a "For Sale" sign hung on the building's probosels. Lampoon editors trailed out sorrowfully, carrying their engraved steins. "What mugs," an onlooker was heard to exclaim...
...looked at Gray. There was no sign of life and he was bleeding from the mouth. I couldn't get him to talk to me. So I took the gun and turned my head and emptied it. I went back and looked at Ross again . . . and I thought he was dead. I shot...
...EATING ALLOWED" announced a sign tacked up last fortnight on the Anglican parish church in Kingston-on-Thames, near London. The Bishop of Stepney, invited to deliver the first of a series of lunch-hour talks organized by the vicar, Rev. T. B. Scruton, preached soberly to 200 people, half of them young white-collar workers, who munched apples, nuts, sandwiches, peppermints. Said a schoolteacher afterward, brushing off his crumbs: "I would not be here unless I were able to eat during the service...
...picket lines in the U. S. Last week Joe Shoong filed suit against the Ladies' Garment Workers for $500,000 damages and finally got an injunction to stop the picketing. Also, last week, the Ladies' Garment Workers applied for an injunction to stop Joe Shoong from putting signs in his windows implying that the dispute was purely jurisdictional. In addition to indignant notices saying that the pickets were C. I. O. while the clerks in the stores were A. F. of L., the union objected to one small, rather plaintive sign in Chinese reading: "No Strike Here...
...fact that interest in Freshman intramural baseball arises each year is ample testimony that the project is worth while. As such, it is worth doing well; dormitory managers should make a real effort to keep interest at a high pitch and men who sign up to play should report at a majority of the games. It would be an unjust imposition on the H.A.A. if Yardlings allow their league to fizzle again when a small amount of conscientious effort would keep it alive and successful...