Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Herrick, a cattleman and farmer in Oklahoma's "Cherokee strip," was elected to Congress in 1920 by the sudden death of his chief opponent and that year's Republican landslide. In 1922 he campaigned vainly for re-election with a speech entitled: "Two Years in Congress, or Through Hell and Back...
Untrue is the longstanding legend of the Star office that a cub reporter of 15 years ago was fired when he revealed a snake tattooed on his arm.* But it is true and well-remembered that last year a syndicated comic strip was doctored by the Times to transform a tiny snake into a toad (TIME...
Another Mickey Mouse fan is Ireland's venerable sage "AE" (George Russell), who once gravely reviewed these hilarious animated cartoons in his august (now defunct) review The Irish Statesman. In Berlin last week a solemn German censor sat down to view that grand old strip of celluloid Mickey Mouse in the Trenches. Afterward, still owl-solemn, he ruled as follows: "The wearing of German military helmets by an army of cats which oppose a militia of mice is offensive to national dignity. Permission to exhibit this production in Germany is refused...
...calliope of the showboat Bryant of Marietta soughed squealingly "Beautiful Ohio" and then the Betsy Ann's tune, "Dixie." The Tom Greene had an edge, but the boats were still so close together that the resting shifts of black stokers jibed at each other across the dividing strip of foamy yellow-brown water. Coming into Cincinnati, special policemen sweated to keep order in the dense auto lines of spectators along the river side streets. Here the Tom Greene began to pull away, was a half-mile ahead just past the city and finished the 21 mi. course at Coney...
...original map was drawn in 1635 and shows the present Harvard Yard to be a piece of marshy ground. The land along the north side of the Charles River was also a strip of marsh. The layout of the streets was much more symmetrical than it is now so that only a few of the principal streets can be recognized: Brattle Square was then called the Market Place, Mount Auburn Street was known as Long Street. Boylston Street was then Wood Street and Dunster Street was Water Street. The map which will be on exhibit is a copy...