Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enclosing strip of film...
Three days of fair Kentucky weather had made the track at Churchill Downs hard and dusty, a strip of yellow cardboard between the high white stands and the infield where, from an immense Maypole, hundreds of small flags slanted to the green turf. Mutuel clerks in their shirt-sleeves leaned in the windows along the brick terrace behind the clubhouse. Equipoise, the winter-book favorite owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, but no longer favored since his beatings in the Chesapeake Stakes and the Preakness, had been scratched because of a blind quarter (hidden bruise) discovered in his right fore...
Followers of lovable, philosophical, hell-raising Skippy, comic-strip youngster, are prone to think of his creator as somewhat like Skippy's own comic-strip father. By that token, Cartoonist Percy Leo Crosby might be a tall, gentle, softspoken man with dark hair and a cropped moustache. Readers with that misconception of Cartoonist Crosby took something of a jolt last week when they saw in the New York World a full page of anti-Prohibition tirade headed: "This Space Bought by Percy Crosby Because He Believes That Any Issue, Affecting the Welfare of the Nation, Should Never Be Straddled...
...have seen his palette," wrote his friend and compatriot by birth, Andre Kormendi, last month. "It had almost no colors. It was like a strip of fog. . . . One saw tiny dabs of Neapolitan yellow, a little blue and green, but all of it melted into the black-white-grey which covered his palette softly as the dusk covered his studio...
Soon after that, the exciting, smell-laden strip of turf and shrubbery in the middle of the avenue began to be narrowed. And policemen grew stricter about letting dogs go inside the iron fences. At the same time the sidewalks were narrowed too. Since telephone poles long ago disappeared from Park Avenue and the slim trees are boarded up, a dog's life was no fun at all during the months when hydrants and lamp posts were made inaccessible by excavations...