Word: take
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Taranto, Italy, 28-year-old Battista Rocca walked out to take the air on the town's main street. Promenader Rocca had a furled umbrella crooked over his arm, and not a stitch besides. To the horrified policemen who arrested him, he explained with dignity: "I'm Mr. Chamberlain...
Muddle No. 2: the complacency with which the ship's crew plowed on deeper into icing weather after they knew they were in trouble. Forty-nine minutes before she crashed, the Cavalier radioed that she might have to take the desperate expedient of landing in the open sea; 15 minutes before the landing she sent out an SOS. Yet she continued Bermuda-ward, made no effort to locate seagoing vessels near which she might land for quick rescue...
Muddle No. 5: While Pan American Airways, which operates the Bermuda run jointly with Imperial, carries four rocket-equipped life rafts on its Bermuda Clipper (total raft capacity: 40 persons), the Cavalier had none. When she began to sink, her eight passengers, her five crew members had to take to the water, hanging to six or seven buoyant seat packs, which had not been issued until after the ship struck. One man passenger, unable to swim, was struck by wreckage as he left the ship, and drowned. A steward, held in the terrified ring where the survivors hung around their...
Though the 376 towns of Manager Judson's chain usually take Community's cabbage along with its caviar, they actually get a larger quantity of big-time music than would otherwise come their way. The kicks against Columbia's system have come not from its customers but from its commodity: the artists themselves. Biggest bugaboo Columbia has today is Lawrence Tibbett's dress-collar union, American Guild of Musical Artists. A. G. M. A. has never liked Columbia's practices of giving its artists oral contracts, exploiting a few big names, never letting its artists...
...these up-&-coming pugilists are at least two years away from heavyweight championship calibre. In the meantime, in order to give customers their money's worth, one sportswriter suggested that Black-jack Joe take on all current contenders-Lou Nova, Max Baer, Bob Pastor, Tony Galento-in one evening, one at a time, like a barfly's dream...