Word: straws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Proceedings began when Boss Long cast his bill-laden straw hat on a committee table and started explaining his 27-point "purifying" program. Among the measures to come out of the Long hat were: ¶ A bill to provide a Legislative investigation of the municipal government of New Orleans, an almost exact copy of the law which empowered Samuel Seabury to investigate the New York City government and drive Mayor James J. Walker out of office...
Males: Shirt (two pockets), Cotton wash trousers, Lower half of underwear, Socks without garters or no socks at all, Ventilated shoes, Pith helmet or light straw...
...gladly take him fishing for the great a'u (swordfish) in Kona waters, drive him through Hawaii's fern forests, show him sugar-cane fields, pineapple plantations, the leper colony, crown him with leis, feed him poi (taro root paste), or entertain him at a native feast (luau) with straw-skirt ballet...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) goes one step beyond the usual spy story, deals with counter-espionage in Wartime Constantinople. A German spy, Annemarie (Myrna Loy), is set to catch the Turkish Commander of the Dardanelles, who is suspected of selling secrets to the British. With the aid of a large straw hat, and a plan as devious as her Oriental quarry, she succeeds. When she is falsely told that her scheme caused the death of her lover, she becomes mentally deranged, stays cooped up in a nunnery until he returns...
...that day from abroad in payment for German exports. Simultaneously Germans were deprived of the right to send private money orders abroad. In Berlin representatives of leading U. S. firms who have been greatly hampered by former exchange restrictions called Dr. Schacht's new decrees the last straw and Remington Office Machinery Co. of Berlin closed up with a bang, discharging 300 German employes...