Word: strains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost nobody has a radio, local candidates got all too much attention from the enraged but helpless proletariat. "Judas!" roared the miners of Seaham at snowy-crested Candidate James Ramsay MacDonald and broke up his meetings again & again. When Ishbel MacDonald. no longer apple-cheeked but pale with strain, tried to speak for her father, she too was jeered off the platform. So was onetime Engine Greaser James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, Dominions Secretary. At the famed waxworks of Madame Tussaud, where the National Government may be seen in session any day, the dummies most definitely slated to disappear were those...
Though Foster is leaving the hospital today, his doctors petitioned Lieutenant Joseph Shannon to seek a week's postponement of the case as the janitor is still too weak to bear the strain of appearing in court...
Mulattoes' Hearts. Mulattoes, even if their heart arteries are stiff as clay pipes, do not complain of angina pectoris, owing simply to their "inability to correctly interpret and describe the pain sensation rather than to lack of mental stress and strain as suggested frequently in the past." Such was the finding of Drs. Emmet Field Horine, 50, & Morris M. Weiss, 34, of Louisville...
...pastoral, the abode of gay spirits whose deepest animosities could be dissipated by a hearty slap on the back and a few frank words. A cloud gathered at the panic of 1907, soon disappeared. "Oh, but we had a stern captain in 1907; it was during those days of strain that I discovered for myself what an admirable intelligence gleamed through the fierce eyes of J. Pierpont Morgan.'' More trouble threatened during the War. when National City plans for financing a French loan collided with the plans of the House of Morgan. A frank talk, a slap...
...Mandalay and Glory Road in plain clothes, excerpts from Faust and Carmen, all sung by its affable, grape-nosed star with grace, good humor and superb enthusiasm. No better indication of the civilized qualities of the picture could be given than its adroit conclusion. Tibbett, harassed by the strain of running an opera company whose "angel" has deserted it, comes out to sing the prolog to Pagliacci. He does so in grand style to ringing applause from both the audience in the picture and, usually, the audience at it. Then,, instead of going on into what looked like an inevitable...