Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Denver. Two special trains brought delegates from California, one from Florida. With some 6,000 delegates from every corner of the land, they swarmed into Chicago's huge Stevens Hotel, thrust $2 registration fees across the counters of four booths, got gilded medals hung on blue badges. One thousand members of the new Townsend Legion, who pay $1 per month special dues, were distinguished from ordinary 10?-per-month dues-payers by red badges. The club tags and State ribbons, which everybody wore, made it easy to get acquainted...
...Swiss machine gun expert named Whittley was working like mad to protect the only railway in Ethiopia at its most vulnerable point. For this purpose he had at his disposal a carload of Swiss anti-aircraft machine guns of the latest model, all the ammunition he required, and a thousand black soldiers who were the worst shots Expert Whittley had ever seen. Finally he figured out a system to offset his gun crews' miserable marksmanship...
...pictures or stories of lust or crime; or exhibits upon a public way or in any other place within the view of a minor . . . shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than two years or by a fine of not less than one hundred or more than one thousand dollars." Other statutes also applied to the case...
...with a shot of Captain Clark Gable reeling home to his ship (the pride of the line) after a three day drunk in Hong Kong. Waiting for him on board are Jean Harlow, looking alluring as ever, Mr. Robert Benchley, drunk again, and Rosalind Russell, who has travelled fifteen thousand miles to reclaim her bibulous sea-captain...
...Agues Eve. Outside, the owl, the hare, even the sheep, are trembling in a freezing moor. A glowing chamber on this holy night is ringing with the revelry of a thousand guests; and somewhere old dames are telling an old story over again: How on this eve thoughtful maids "If ceremonies they did aright . . . " might win sight of their lover in their dreams. The fair Madeline, full of this whim is preparing in her chamber. Already Porphyro stands beside the castle gates. An old beldame speaks...