Word: straws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...placed on Theodore Roosevelt's grave at Oyster Bay, L. I. Celebrations were held at Navy stations over the U. S. In the rain at Washington Navy Yard a party of Marines landed from Anacostia, staged a smoky mock battle with a party of sailors dressed in straw sombreros and checkered shirts to suggest Central American Insurrectos. At Philadelphia Navy Yard visitors clambered over Admiral Dewey's old, grey flagship, the Olympia. Preparedness messages were delivered on Boston Common by James Roosevelt, at the Navy Department by droopy-mustached Secretary Claude A. Swanson, in Atlanta by the Navy...
...Chiang's grim, steel-helmeted, Prussian-disciplined regulars advancing recently at Lotien in the teeth of Japanese fire which sprawled some grotesquely as they fell (see cut). Old-style Chinese troops, such as still compose most of the country's forces, would have fled in floppy straw hats, perhaps throwing away their rifles, but salvaging their teakettles and paper umbrellas...
...Sultan Roland Young with panaceas borrowed from the New Deal. Haroun-al-Cantor's venture into political satire is tuneful, gay, imaginatively written, generously produced. The cumulative effect of its guying would not nettle even the income tax bureau, for Funnyman Cantor pokes lightly at an array of straw...
Prime requisite of a fireman is the ability to think fast in an emergency. Last week, the firemen of Boise, Idaho did so. Roused a few minutes after 3 a.m. by a newsboy who had noticed a pile of straw burning in a corral, firemen raced to the scene, found flames licking at a barn belonging to the Myron Jacobs Riding Academy, where swank Boiseans stable their horses. The Riding Academy is 25 ft. outside Boise's city limits. A city ordinance forbids the fire department to fight fires outside Boise, and firemen injured doing so get no compensation...
...Woodford and Havock incidents apparently were the last straw. Backed to the hilt by France, two long and secret meetings were held in Downing Street attended by key Cabinet Ministers, whereupon came the announcement...