Word: straws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Proud is Editor Ansley that his Encyclopedia is up-to-date enough to include Babe Ruth's departure from the Boston Braves last June. Even prouder is he that it covers such neglected U. S. subjects as the Conestoga wagon, lassoing, Turkey in the Straw, Pemaquid...
Texans wore straw sombreros, Kansans paper sunflower hats, Marylanders yellow and black capes, Californians sailor suits. And because Philadelphia was host last week to the 35th International Christian Endeavor convention, certain youthful Pennsylvanians wore Liberty Bell contraptions labeled, HELLO I'M GLAD TO SEE YOU. At Convention Hall 12,000 young people, aged from 16 to 27, paid $2 registration fees. Claiming thaT 40,000 attended some sessions, officials inaccurately called it "the largest youth gathering in the history of North America." Apparently they had forgotten that in 1895 a rousing Christian Endeavor convention in Boston drew...
...There should be a chapter on Anger. Repressed rage is one of man's grandest endowments, and I wouldn't give a straw for a man who couldn't on occasion bite a crowbar in two in pure dancing fury. But-don't do it; you simply spoil the crowbar or break a tooth...
...revenue from income tax, native taxes, customs stamps and licenses, is actually poor. For that reason Northern Rhodesia's executive council lately raised the native poll tax from 10 to 15 shillings. For black Roan workmen, who cannot quit during their contract term, that was the last straw. Last week they went on strike, first at Mufulira, then at Nkana, then at Roan Antelope itself at Luanshya. The 10,000 white Britons on the savannah, who are rated with the cream of British colonists, began to think about the 100-to-1 odds against them...
Although the League will probably placate Italy by winking at the array of troops, airplanes, and tanks on the Ethiopian borders, to the world at large such conduct can be nothing but the last straw. If, as seems almost inevitable, the League of Nations fails to give justice to this fourth-rate African power, it can be definitely challenged as having failed to observe its obligations, and in the future can be regarded as merely a convenient cloak, concealing without conspicuous success the machinations of European diplomacy...