Word: thinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drastic and in Pennsylvania, to back them up, the operators have obtained special state-appointed policemen, whose salaries the operators pay. Vice President Murray's report dwelt at length on the technique of these special policemen, whom he styled "gun-men," "thugs." Coalminers are not a fragile, thin-skinned lot but they were shocked by photographs Mr. Murray showed, by stories he told, of strikers with skulls bashed and cracked by rifle butts and axes...
...Spirit of the Air," words and music by herself, dedicated to Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh. "L'amour est une oiseau rebelle. . . ." The customers at the Palace sat alert for the "Habanera" of the World's Greatest Carmen, but the high comb would not stay in the thin bobbed hair, and the flaming shawl was strangely dull. True there was a hint of the old gestures, the old fire, but the Palace audience could not remember, saved their applause for Naughton & Gold, funny indeed, for the triple-tonguing of Trumpeter Rolfe and his slapstick jazz players...
...Reiner, leader of the Cincinnati Symphony. Though aware that famed Leopold Stokowski was taking a year's leave of absence, they had half expected to see the sharp and mobile curlicue of his conjuror's face, to be entertained by the hunch-ings and bendings of his thin black back, to listen to the superb and golden music which he has been able to coax from his musicians. Reiner, the first of the guest conductors who will replace him this year, they knew would be acceptable; but they did not see how he could equal Stokowski; they waited...
...Caesar, Mr. Thaddeus presents the following picture: "Sword in one hand, the incendiary torch in the other, he strides across Gaul, his thin-lipped mouth twisted into a smile as the eagles of his legions scream false promises to the natives.... But legend has chosen to whitewash the tawdry walls of Rome, so that it is Caesar, the far seeing statesman, rather than Caesar the bandit-adventurer, who is in the habit of stepping forward immaculate to take curtain calls as one of history's heroes and supermen...
...battles with Yale in 1923 and 1924 the mud-caked pants were not hung up in the Fogg Museum; they were washed out for use in spring practice. Even now it is only too true that one may see the numeralled crimson jersey that ripped through the thin blue line in 1926, working on the dummy with the McKinlock second team. Harvard is indicated on the charge of emotional indifference, and all because of the utilitarian souls of Joe Dube and the Harvard athletic Association...