Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Later that afternoon, Hero Corrigan headed another parade, this one for school children. It was during this that close observers got their widest eye-opener. One part of the line of march led through a barren stretch along Western Avenue. Perched on the folded top of the official car sat Corrigan, bowing grandly right and left and not a soul on the sidewalks...
...cooperative string of broadcasting outlets, it soon added WLW (Cincinnati) to its list. Less than a year later the new network began picking up many stations in New England, the Midwest. When California's Don Lee Broadcasting System joined, it completed the MBS coast-to-coast stretch. Other stations joined singly and in groups to give MBS a 1938 collection of 107 outlets, all linked together on the cooperative profit-sharing basis. Since several of these are also affiliated with NBC or CBS, who have prior claims on their time for sponsored programs, it is often impossible to sell...
...plays a violin. Beneath his silkiness lies a mental toughness, a counterpart of the muscular toughness that enabled him to build a cabin on Mt. Washington with his two hands, makes him a tireless mountain skier and climber, lets him work 20 hours a day for weeks at a stretch. His shock of water-spaniel hair is greying but he still looks young at 37. Coffee with lots of sugar instead of alcohol for a bracer is one of his rules, though he does drink sociably. He doesn't smoke. Girls have no part in his life...
Flick Hoxton's boys have similarly eccentric habits. Sometimes they soak their felt hats, stretch them on baseball bats and traipse around the campus like pixies wearing hats two or three feet high. Each spring they raise squirrels in their dresser drawers. A common event at dinner is the passing of the "boss" (dessert) from unlucky to lucky wagerers. Sometimes boys will bet a whole year's boss on an election or whether a master's wife's baby will be a boy or girl. Once they smeared treacle (molasses) on the bell rope...
...Pennsylvania Railroad's Columbus-to-Dayton stretch a section gang working near Selma, leaned on their tools one morning last week to watch the crack St. Louisana whip by on its way from Manhattan to St. Louis. As the flyer thundered past there was a tremendous gasp from the big, black K-4 locomotive, and from the cab belched strange clouds of steam. On toward nearby Cedarville it hissed, roared over the Main Street crossing with no warning blast, came to a wheezing stop at the town's westerly limits. But no human hand had thrown the brake...