Word: souped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This otherwise passing incident was duck soup for California's Republican Attorney General Earl Warren, who was after Mark Megladdery on charges more serious than nocturnal brawling. Mark Megladdery was secretary to Governor Frank Finley Merriam until that aging (73) Republican was deposed last year by Democrat Culbert Levy Olson. Just before Frank Merriam stepped down, he appointed his 33-year-old lawyer-secretary to the Superior Court of Alameda County. Judge Megladdery was assigned no cases by his fellow judges because at that point to Attorney General Warren went Banker Joseph H. Stephens, a member of the State...
Forty-three ounces of gray-streaked pigeon flesh flapped into the Union dining hall sun porch at 5:51 o'clock last night, terrifying dozens of Yardlings, who had been peacefully drinking their cream of spinach soup...
Through a pea-soup fog the fishing schooner Isabelle Parker, out of Boston, footed it north one night last week toward Brown's Bank, off the Nova Scotia coast. To Seaman Fred Bourque, on the bow watch, the fog seemed to thicken as dawn came. Suddenly, 20 feet dead ahead, a great silhouette showed. Fred Bourque shouted a warning to Billy Oilman at the wheel, ran aft. In less time than it takes to gut a cod the Isabelle Parker had piled halfway through the Gloucesterman Edith C. Rose, southbound with her hold stuffed with catch from Brown...
Other pieces in the exhibit, however, such as the pastel Child Eating Soup, are done in a subdued yet colorful manner with an unmistakable but not grating sense of strength and certainty. In this specific work, the figure of the child is rather grotesque and boldly realistic. It is valuable as art because it portrays solidity and bluntness in a fashion that is reasonable and interesting...
Last week not only Amos 'n' Andy, their 8,000,000 followers and Sponsor Campbell Soup, but a great many U. S. legal lights were still wondering. Before the broadcast a reassuring number of preachers, lawyers, etc. had advised Gosden and Correll that unless the clinching words ". . . man and wife," were pronounced, the marriage would be unbinding. But after the broadcast the CBS publicity staff discovered that the New York marriage law does not require the last three words to clinch a marriage contract. By week's end informed opinion was about evenly divided. Sample comments...