Word: taile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from atop the City Hall, the most preposterous suggestion to any Philadelphian would be that Curtis Publishing Co. (Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, Country Gentleman) would rise from its great 12-story brick and steel nest where it prints 17,500,000 magazines every month*, ruffle its tail feathers and waddle away to another State...
...Fort Smith, Ark., the New York Giants beat the Cleveland Indians 9-to-2, on expert pitching from veteran Hal Schumacher. In Philadelphia, the American League Athletics and the National League Phillies, both rated as likely tail-enders in their respective leagues, began a three-out-of-five-game series for their city championship. In Tulsa, Okla., the world champion New York Yankees won their 13th straight game, 8-to-3, against the Tulsa Oilers. In Daytona, Fla., the St. Louis Cardinals started north via a miserable record of four victories in 14 exhibition games...
...TAIL OF THE COMET-Mary Cable Dennis-Button...
...famous War Book, containing detailed plans about practically everything for the event of war. Well, we ought to have a Peace Book, mobilization plans for times of peace!" ¶ "Officials here are trying assiduously to prevent the British Lion from roaring or showing its teeth as Mussolini twists its tail," cabled United Press last week from London. "Within the limits of freedom of the press prevailing in Britain, where there is no censorship, authorities are trying to modulate the openly anti-Italian tone in some leading newspapers. . . . The Cabinet . . . discussed the . . . situation. . . . Authorities sought tonight to restrain British newspapers...
...subsidiaries was sold to the public, an activity which eventually led to the Federal indictments (TIME, Nov. 18, Still loyal to the boys who had the world by the tail, Professor Fisher ap peared as a witness in their behalf, drawing from energetic Assistant U. S. Attorney William Power Maloney a challenge as to his economic competency. Mr. Fisher, he told the jury, was a "dusty old academic," "a slightly befuddled expert." Shown news stories of Roger Ward Babson's prediction of the 1929 crash, which were publicly pooh-poohed by Mr. Fisher at the time, the white-goateed...