Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee's total passed $4,000,000. This sum was what made it possible for little knots of men to be painting Central Park benches, digging sewers in The Bronx, performing clerical work in city hospitals, pitching manure on Park Avenue's thin central strip of grass. Total thus employed: 17,300. ¶ New Orleans jobless began hawking Louisiana oranges on the streets. Manhattan's unemployed fruit vendors sold tangerines two-for-5?. In Elizabeth...
Twenty thousand people fringed the long-rowed field, speculating as to who would be the winner. Walter Olson of Rio, Ill., who can strip a shuck from the stalk and send one ear over his tailgate with another right behind it, who uses either a steel peg or a hook impartially, was not competing. He won last year and the year before. But Harold Holmes and Orville Welch, two Illinois boys who had won their State's championship, were known to be spry harvesters. Then there was Fred Stanek of Fort Dodge, Iowa. Three years...
Captain Bairnsfather is England's famous humorous lecturer and cartoonist. He will deliver a lecturer in the main living room and also draw charcoal sketches of his comic strip characters. Russell has attained great fame in Ireland as a poet, painter, and economist. The subject of his speech is not yet known, but it is believed he will talk on the advantages of rural life, and returning "back to the farm", as he has been making speeches all over the country on this subject...
When the expedition reaches Africa it has a hard time finding any land to colonize, at last settles on a strip of jungle-fringed seacoast. Meantime Harvey's sly companions spread unrest in the group, most of them leave. In the end it develops that the land is already a British possession. Defeated, cast off by all save a mulatto girl, Harvey realizes that the only reason she has stood by him is because she is not pure Negro but part white. Actor Wilson's role is played with earnestness and fervor, but the play has not been...
...Author. Artist-Author Milt Gross is famed for his monologs in the Bronx dialect, Nize Baby, Conversations in a Dumb Waiter, which first appeared in the Manhattan World. Since then his syndicated Sunday comic strip, Count Screwloose of Toulouse, has made him a nationally-advertised product. Short, dark, blue-eyed, curly-headed, he is lively, kindly, entertaining. He is married, has three children. Oct. 1 he left the World, became a Hearstman. Other books: Nize Baby, Hiawatta, Famous Fimmales from History...