Word: taile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oldster undisputed master of the movement. Meantime anecdotes began circulating in Washington to the effect that his enormous publicity, his vast audiences, his worshipful followers, his new-found wealth and the obvious terror in which timid Congressmen held him had gone to Dr. Townsend's head. "World by Tail" From Old Age Revolving Pensions, Dr. Townsend testified, he had received salary and expenses totaling $16,557. His dividends from the National Townsend Weekly amounted to some $38,500. Of this total he said he had only about $500 in the bank. Although Dr. Townsend last March publicly assigned...
With a nucleus and tail about one degree in length, the comet is located in the Constellation Cepheus through which it is rambling south and east at a rate sufficient to keep visible for some months to come...
...octopus in trout's clothes). . . . Seems to us Ann Marster's experiment in playing the horses hasn't been too great a success. We've been noticing quite a few reports lately starting, 'Only picked one winner yesterday' Back to getting the dirt on Harvard's wild cock-tail parties, Ann!. . . . Incidently the freshmen seem to have found a way of getting the wheels turning at their smoker last night: they merely stood up and threw cheese, crackers and doughnuts at each other until Jimmy Foxx appeared, minus a bat or even a catcher's mask. The great first-bagger...
This strange young man first distinguished himself from his 434 colleagues on the tail end of last New Year's Eve. Entering a Washington apartment house, he shouldered the Negro switchboard operator aside, merrily plugged in every telephone in the building. Four husky policemen testified in court that Representative Zioncheck was so drunk that they had had to support him when they removed him from the building. Convicted of drunken & disorderly conduct, he took a copy of the court proceedings to the House, asked unanimous consent to have them printed in the Congressional Record. "I think," declared the indignant...
This car, which Dr. Bridges calls "Lightning Bug," looks something like the Dymaxion designed by Architect Richard Buckminster Fuller (TIME, June 12, 1933), but is smaller and squattier. It is almost perfectly streamlined, even the license plates and tail-lamp being recessed into the body and covered with Pyralin windows flush with the streamlining. There are no door handles; the doors must be opened with special keys. Dr. Bridges pronounced the Lightning Bug crash-proof and carbon-monoxide-proof. "My whole aim," said he, "was to show what could be done to attain safety, economy and readability in a small...