Word: staines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tall, fond of gardening and antique furniture, a resident of Greenwich Village. She dresses in tweeds, has two dogs and five alley cats, uses a dark stain to give her hair its golden appearance in her current role. Her husband, Frank J. Ross Jr., is a building contractor. Having reversed the procedure with which most handsome young actresses start their careers, she will presently return to Hollywood to make a picture for Columbia...
...Edward III had a British Government defaulted. His Majesty's Government has considered it worth while to make "token payments ' on its war debt to the U. S. only because President Roosevelt, after receiving each token, has always expressed the personal view that it wiped away the stain of technical default. Last week it was the painful duty of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, hawk-nosed Neville Chamberlain, to explain to the House of Commons that President Roosevelt was no longer able to gild tokens with their oldtime gloss. The Johnson Bill, barring flotation...
Across this comparative calm the stain of scandal suddenly spread last week. Renegades of the majority Seiyukai party rose to link Minister of Education Ichiro Hatoyama and Railways Minister Chuzo Mitsuchi with the recent significant merger of all Japanese steel works. They charged that the steel companies had cash-bribed Ministers Hatoyama & Mitsuchi and 130 Representatives. Furious voices screamed back & forth in the Diet, named Hatoyama with menacing frequency. True or false, the scandal was of the kind that traditionally makes Cabinets reach for their hats. Premier Saito was ready to "release" Hatoyama, hoped against hope that that would...
Last week, before London's Society of Antiquaries. King Edward V had been 4 ft. 9 in. tall, his brother 4 ft. 6½ in. (Their father King Edward IV had been 6 ft. 3 in.) Edward had had bad teeth. A blood stain across his face bones indicated that he had been clouted severely before dying...
...duplicate note will be sent the office, whence will emanate toward the presumably terrified offender a letter, couched in solemn, hortatory tones. This entire process constitutes a "first warning." This, however, is but the beginning. If the unfortunate student repeats the offence, if he leave even one tiny stain on the expanse of his handsome desk, he is summarily excluded from the lab for three weeks or so, and forced to make up the missed work as best he can. As the instructor coyly remarks, after issuing this information: "only once have we had hard feeling because of this necessary...