Word: straws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...denounced his predecessor for ordering mattresses (TIME, Oct. 21), will continue the tradition of keeping Hungarian soldiers "hard" by making them sleep on bags stuffed with straw or worse. †Plays written by the Countess Margit Bethlen and produced in Italy are sure of extravagant praise from Dictator Mussolini, now angling for an alliance with Dictator Bethlen...
Though the new straw-thatched building to which the sacred mirror moved last week is only 37 by 18 ft., and of the most primitive design, it has taken nine years to build, has cost the Imperial Government nearly...
...Quincy, Mass., there was a sultry, grey sky, a wet mist falling. An elegant lady in white shoes and stockings, in a white flannel coat .and a white felt hat with a white straw brim, with white teeth shining in a broad smile, advanced through the crowd. One white arm held a sheaf of pink roses; the other white arm waved gaily. There in the yards of Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Grace Goodhue Coolidge?for it was she?took a full-arm swing and smashed a bottle of sparkling mineral water on a stout steel hull, crying, "I christen thee Northampton...
...Coolidge's elbow, Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams in a stiff white collar, holding his white straw hat aloft with a gesture of dignified salutation, watched the new hull slide slowly down to the wet sea. The representative of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee saw nothing?neither the grey hull, the grey mist nor the white apparel. But he, blind Senator Schall of Minnesota (see p. 16), heard the patriotic whistles of the harbor shipping...
...eventually receive 20? instead of 5? or 10? on the dollar, added four more items to the sum of what happens to bad bankers. Each item was an egg thrown at the three manacled convicts on their way to jail. One egg smashed on James Rae Clarke's straw...