Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outdone by the Democrats was the record-breaking Republican house strength of 300 following the Harding landslide in 1920. So crowded will be the majority side of the chamber that nearly a hundred Democrats will have to cross the centre aisle, sit with the Republicans in a -'Cherokee Strip.''* Solidly Democratic will be the house delegations from Colorado, Maryland, Indiana, Nebraska. Rhode Island, South Dakota. Utah. Missouri, Oklahoma, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, West Virginia, Arizona. New Mexico and ten other Southern States...
...Haven has about 14,000 boys & girls in its high and junior-high schools. This week as many of the 14,000 as have 60? to spare for health will strip to the waist, don clean cotton shirts, have their chests x-rayed to learn whether or not they have tuberculosis, enlarged hearts, dropped stomachs or other visceral derangement. Last year New Haven's progressive Department of Health & Board of Education found that 215 out of 563 children in one grade school had traces of tuberculosis. Of the 215, 71 (12.6% of the total) definitely had the disease. Health...
...subscribers went to the concert with high expectations. Composer Carpenter had delighted them before with Adventures in a Perambulator in which are described the reactions of an infant taking its daily excursion to the lake front; with Krazy Kat, sensitive, half-sad music for George Herriman's comic-strip characters; with a finely made Concertino for Piano & Orchestra...
...Republican cartoonist who has not participated in this year's campaign because of illness is John Tinney McCutcheon of the Chicago Tribune. In his stead the Tribune's editorial policies have been faithfully illustrated by Carey Cassius Orr. The Orr cartoons, many of them telling complete comic strip stories such as the labored transposition of "Garner of Texas" into "Garner of Taxes" are models of geometrical precision...
...pictures depicting the Sacco-Vanzetti affair merge on caricature, there is more of art than mere clever distortion in these gouaches. When the exhibit appeared at the Downtown Gallery in New York City, many were inclined to dismiss the whole of Shahn's work as comic-strip treatment of more serious topics, yet even the poignancy that speaks from each picture is testimony that there is something more permanent than grim humor here...