Word: tented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thoroughgoing rebuke to Editor Guy for slipshod reporting, in neglecting to mention that The Green Pastures company had offered to erect its own dressing-room tent outside the school...
Died. Dr. Elmer Isaac McKesson, 53, physician, pioneer inventor of gas and anesthesia appliances, an oxygen tent, an artificial larynx; of a kidney ailment; in Toledo, Ohio. He founded McKesson Appliance Co., one of the world's largest firms of its kind, died with one of his own oxygen masks on his face...
...prevent welfare agencies from taking possession of his child; the efforts of his female assistant (Sally Eilers) to make him see that this can easily be accomplished by a second marriage. The inevitable riot scene, in which the carnival personnel squeals "Hey Rube!" and Poochy is left in a tent which catches fire, serves for a climax. Sportswriter Grantland Rice's daughter Florence, who began her acting career as Snow Queen in the Dartmouth Winter Carnival of 1928 does well in a brief sequence as a trained nurse...
...first situation and carrying the second to an odd conclusion, Playwright Sherwood has magnificently presented one tumultuous afternoon and evening in a roadside service station in the far West. Apparently just as much at home in the Black Mesa Bar-B-Q as he was in Hannibal's tent (The Road to Rome) or post-War Austria (Reunion in Vienna), Playwright Sherwood has given a humorous and dramatic three-dimensional panorama of the hamburg and gas-peddling Maples, their young, ex-fullback helper, the rich and insufferable Chisholms who drive up in their Duesenberg limousine. Things really begin...
Based on a reference in the Book of Isaiah (54:2) to a stake strengthening a tent, the Mormon Stake of Zion was established by Prophet-Founder Joseph Smith as the counterpart of a Gentile diocese. Half of the Church's 110 Stakes are in Utah, the largest ones being in Salt Lake City which has 56,000 Mormons. Idaho and California have Stakes. San Francisco got its first one last fortnight. But until last week no state east of Colorado had enough Mormons for a Stake, not even New York where Joseph Smith first saw visions, received from...