Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between Manhattan and smoky Queens lies a thin strip of grey land with grey buildings in the middle of the sludgy grey waters of the East River. It used to be called Blackwell's Island. In 1921 its name was changed to Welfare Island. Motorists crossing the Queensboro Bridge span it in daily thousands. Wealthy socialites in their riverfront apartments pay big money to look at it. But Welfare Island is not a nice place to visit and nobody would want to live there. It is the site of the New York County Penitentiary...
Ramming nonsense down the throats of unwilling undergraduates must be a dull business for instructors, particularly in the lower reaches of the academic world. One of the rare pleasures which relieve the tedium for them is to bustle importantly into an examination, strip the wrapping from the examination papers, and view for the first time in print those mighty cerebral efforts which are to be the nemesis of the class. Then suddenly half way through the test it will be discovered that question 2a is all wrong; a correction will be announced and question 2a will be rewritten with muted...
...city of Cleveland mailed a check for $4,068 to John Davison Rockefeller Sr. as a penalty for selling two strips of Rockefeller Park, exchanging another strip for a piece of land belonging to the Catholic diocese, in violation of its agreement with...
...reproduce the subject free for any one who would give him wall space. The New Workers took him up.* But since Communist workers have no walls to match those of the Capitalist Rockefellers the original scheme had to be dropped. What Artist Rivera made instead was a cartoon strip, a panorama of civilization in the U. S. as seen through Communist eyes from the landing of the Pilgrims and the liquidation of the Indians to NRA and the farm strike. The New Workers' tenure of the garret being none too permanent, the metal lath and plaster panels of each...
Also featured will be a critical article, "Anabasis of A. MacLeish," by H. M. Wade. There will be a new dramatic column criticizing holiday plays in New York, in addition to the usual book reviews, and the Hodge Podge strip...