Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conveyor. Head down, tongue out, tail hanging down his back, squealing in terror, he is carried along until a husky man with a spear-like knife makes the deft throat-cutting thrust which kills him. Then an intricate web of knives scrapes off his hair, Government inspectors slice his neck glands to look for signs of tuberculosis. A knife cleaves off his head. Another knife sweeps his insides as clean as his skin. A twist of tweezers and his toenails go clattering to the floor. A bath of fire removes the last shred of hair. A cleaver drops and rends...
...bringing a cargo of children from the shanties of striking Pennsylvania miners to Pittsburg, where they intended to beg what little they might get to supplement the Union's vanishing reserves. They were scantily clad in incongruous cast-offs, and their only food for the day was a slice of bread soaked in unpalatable coffee, but they sang with a verve derogatory ditties about the police and patriots. The pinch of hunger had wizened their faces and made them look four or five years older than they were, but it had left their spirits free for the hatreds which...
Grant's Secretary of the Interior (1875-77). Chandler's dour effigy now stands in the Capitol's Statuary Hall. The Hales inherited a large slice of the Chandler fortune, made in dry goods in Detroit. Scion of two such potent and distinguished families, young "Freddie" Hale was carefully schooled (Lawrenceville, Groton. Harvard) and steered into the Law as a stepping stone to politics. His father's name and fame helped him to get elected to the Maine House of Representatives for one term (1904). In 1916 he was elected to the U. S. Senate where...
...have you the courage, the audacity, the nerve to take punishment ? I think you have the stamina. . . ." Ellsworth Vines, No. 8 a year ago, was ranked No. i for winning ten tournaments including the National championship last year. The selection of this gangling 20-year-old who imparts a slice to his forehand drives and often plays in a white linen cap that looks too big for him startled tennis enthusiasts much less than something Vines did last week. Just before the rankings were announced, Vines declared his intention of leaving the University of Southern California, where he studies...
...ends in March with the North & South Open at Pinehurst. Obscure young Eastern professionals often club together to buy an old car for the tour of Florida's tournaments, hoping that luck and the urgent need for a new set of tires will help them win a slice of the prize money, but they seldom care to risk the trip across the Rockies where more celebrated practitioners start the money season...