Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dream takes him to old Bagdad, where he is received by the Sultan and Sultana (former Strip-Teaser Gypsy Rose Lee). Eddie earns the gratitude of the harassed Sultan by setting up a New Deal, with himself as Prime Minister. Some of his projects: improved breadlines (one for rye, one for whole-wheat), a tax on wives, bridges for riverless Bagdad* (the rivers to be dug later), dancing lessons for the masses, filling stations for camels...
Shearers are mostly nomadic Mexicans, who sleep in the open and travel in groups with their own Mexican cook. With electric clippers a good shearer can strip 140 goats a day. For each goat he is given a token which at the end of the week he turns in for about 4?. Shearers who have bad luck during the week at gambling may never get paid...
...street some moments later, in rather a bloody and dirty mess. In relating this incident afterwards-it seems that we must all tell of our operations and accidents-I have stated that there is only one word that can describe the sensation and that was one from the comic strip, namely: "WHAM...
That writeup struck me as juvenile, dis-Jionest, trite and unconvincing: because a tragedy cannot adequately be described by such comic-strip adverbs as whop! crack! and smash! TIME'S customary understatement was missing. We are not only asked to visualize three distinct divisions of what must have been a confusing accident, but we are expected to do so through the medium of a whop! etc. when the writer has already said there were "three rending crashes." Does he mean that a whop! is a particular type of crash...
...week's end Nicaragua retorted by banning an airmail stamp (allegedly showing the disputed border strip) issued by the Honduran Government in 1935. The decree warned that parcels and mail bearing the stamp would be returned to the place of origin...