Word: slicing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Carefree (RKO Radio). London's Vauxhall Gardens in the 19th Century boasted a carver who could slice ham so thin that one of his hams, it was said, would pave the entire grounds. Waiters serving his translucent slices outdoors held them down with their fingertips to keep them from blowing away. Like all films in which Fred Astaire has figured prominently, Carefree is important for its melancholy songs and its brisk, high-spirited dancing. The farce between the dances, however, is sliced paper-thin...
...years ago and directed subsequent tests. Sales claims for the germ flour: added nutritive value, superior aroma, flavor, palatability, long-keeping quality without preservatives, 25% reduction in amount of shortening needed. Chief claim: germ flour improves metabolism so greatly as to increase consumption; if everybody ate an extra slice of bread each day, 50,000,000 extra bushels of U. S. wheat would be used annually...
When Marshall W. Hoyt of Natick, Mass., died, a person who said she was Mrs. Grace T. Hoyt gave the body a regulation burial and went home to wait for her slice of Hoyt's $20,000 estate. Before the will had been probated, Eugenia Wilson Wackenmuth of East Port Chester, Conn., and J. Gilbert Wilson filed a claim that the person named Marshall W. Hoyt was really their aunt, and therefore obviously not a husband and unable to leave a widow-beneficiary. Asked about the sex of the corpse, Undertaker Frederick A. Gibbs shook his head, mumbled about...
...Chaco Peace Conference in Buenos Aires, composed of representatives of the U. S., Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Chile and Uruguay, offered a solution which would have given landlocked Bolivia a port on the Paraguay river, and thus an outlet to the sea, Bolivia's main interest in having a slice of the Chaco. Paraguay flatly rejected it. "The Bolivian flag cannot fly over a port on the river bearing the name Paraguay," groused Paraguay's 75-year-old Foreign Minister Dr. Cecilio Baez to the conference. He refused to budge even after the delegates reminded him that Brazilian...
WASHINGTON--The Senate tonight added $175,000,000 to the works relief slice of the pending pump-priming bill and voted a $125,000,000 "dole" to the needy after President Roosevelt had warned of a threatened crisis in unemployment this summer and demanded a free hand to combat it. Attacking widespread Senate agitation to ear-mark the $3,247,500,000 recovery-relief fund as a safeguard against its use by administration for political reprisals, the President wrote Sen. Alva Adams, D., Colo., floor manager of the measure, insisting on a flexible appropriation...