Word: strip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That cyphric strip of climbing...
Artist Saint's seven sons include Sam, 24, writer, licensed pilot and glassmaker; Phil, 23, a '"cartoonist-evangelist" who last year contributed a religious comic strip to The Presbyterian Guardian (TIME, Oct. 28); and David ("Scelp"), 19, who blossomed out as a self-taught sculptor at 15. Most commercial member of the family is Xathanael ("Thanny"),11, who has a Philadelphia Bulletin paper route. Their mother & sister keep house, supervise some 30 meals...
...Labor," observed Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s President Eugene Grace as he opened a new $20,000,000 strip & sheet mill at Lackawanna, N. Y. last week, "is paramount in all our minds today...
Notable at the Whiteman-Philadelphia concerts was a tone poem by Ferde Grofe called Tabloid, scored for orchestra, electric siren, four typewriters, eight revolvers. According to City Editor George Clarke of the New York Mirror, who wrote the program notes, Tabloid had representations of comic-strip characters, a murder, sob sisters and sport writers at work, a whole newspaper going to press. Critics found Composer Grofe's latest work exciting but unmusical, liked best Mr. Whiteman doing good reliable Gershwin. Two nights later the Dell season officially opened, with the audience cheering Beethoven's Eroica as done...
...recent report charged that Turkey had violated the Treaty of Lausanne by (1 announcing universal military conscription, 2 sending troops into the demilitarized Dardanelles zone, 3 occupying a strip of territory ruled by France under a League mandate, 4 launching four new battleships, 5 denying the franchise to Armenians in Turkey...