Word: straws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result of such attitudes as this, says Dr. Riddle, "an eviscerated straw man is set up in place of the reality. . . . Many millions of our present and future citizens are robbed of a biological outlook, or they get one that is warped and unrecognizable...
...greatest flaw in "American Landscape" is that its main character is something of a man of straw; the farm is unproductive because Captain Dale is a poor farmer; the factory is a failure because in lean years its owner operated out of sentiment rather than on intelligent business principles. In this act there is too much reiteration of what has gone before--too many characters state that their fathers lived and died in Dalesford, that their brothers perished in the war to end war, and too many handsful of warm loam are tossed to the Autumn wind...
...Partial list of props used up at each performance of Hellzapoppin: a dozen bananas, a dozen eggs, three dozen balloons, three dozen carnations, five pounds of beans, 150 pounds of ice. three window panes, one box of candy, one straw...
Career: The eighth child of Galena's postmaster and chief Republican little-wig, Dewey Short was named for the hero of the contemporary battle of Manila Bay. He went to work as a straw-hatted, barefoot youngster delivering ice and baggage by mulecart to pay for his education. Perhaps the most, if not the best, educated member of the House, he has studied at Baker University (Baldwin, Kans.), Harvard, the University of Berlin, Heidelberg, Oxford. To pay his way, he worked not only as a drayman but as a teacher of philosophy, a lecturer, for one summer...
...patterned on that devised by the Conway Committee for the Big Board, including paid president, public representation, democratic committee rule. This time SEC Chairman Douglas commented: "Forthright and realistic." Curb members, who are voting officially this week, showed their sentiments by accepting the plan 275-to-1 in a straw poll which was still incomplete at week...