Word: subbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Dawes was called by a Congressional sub-committee (Republican) to testify, as General Purchasing Agent of the A. E. F., on War expenditures. Under the detailed questioning of the committeemen. he lost patience and exploded: "Damn it all! The business of any army is to win the war, not to quibble around with a lot of cheap buying." Continuing to swear, he kept the air thick with oaths for which he said he had neither apology nor excuse...
...appears in this picture. They disport themselves in a mood of mean frivolity, snapping their shoulder straps and rude comments at each other, while making things difficult for the heroine who associates with them in order to learn about her husband's extra-marital amusements. She (Linda Watkins) sub-leases the apartment which her husband has provided for his mistress. While he and the mistress (Greta Nissen) are abroad, she falls in love with a sober-sided young mining tycoon. When her husband comes home, she decides after a brief period of reluctance to go to California. The mining...
...announced last week that he would be unable to finish his midwinter engagement with Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony. Since early in the summer Toscanini has suffered excruciating pain in his right arm. Like many a conductor before him (Leopold Stokowski, Willem Mengelberg, Richard Strauss), he has a sub-deltoid bursitis or "glass arm," an affliction which orchestra leaders and schoolboys get from the same cause. Schoolboys get it from throwing pebbles or crabapples instead of baseballs, conductors from putting too much energy into their waving of a light, non-resistant baton. Toscanini has given magnificent performances this autumn but doing...
...billion eight hundred million Christ mas Seals went into the mails last week, despatched to penny philanthropists by the 2,084 sub-organizations of the National Tuberculosis Association. The Association does not expect to realize the $18,000,000 which the stamps represent. But it does hope to surpass the $5,300,000 raised last year. The 2,084 local headquarters are utilizing the most insistent names they can enlist for their collection work. In the Manhattan district the name is Thomas William Lament; in Chicago, David Forgan; in St. Louis, John E. Edwards; in Boston, Dr. John B. Hawes...
...Mary chapter; the secrecy in which the meetings and laws were clothed, the use of cipher in official communications; all these are typical of the fraternities of the time. The ritual of initiation was pompous: in referring to meetings, it stated "everything transacted within this room is transacted Sub rosa, and detested is he that discloses it"; an oath had to be taken to "keep, hold & preserve all secrets that pertain to your duty"; a special fraternity "grip" was employed; the symbolism of the name PBK the three stars, and the letters SP on the medal, was kept scrupulously guarded...