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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week. None had opened for a fortnight nor would for two months. For, the sun having swung south from the Tropic of Cancer, the U. S. Drama swung out across the city limits.* In a hundred remodeled barns, churches and casinos, on college campuses and at amusement parks, several thousand professional, semiprofessional and amateur performers greased up and caught their cues as the summer theatre season got under...
...certain professor referred to the absurdities of the latent hostility to Germany during the Spanish War of 108 and mentioned the strong ties binding the scholars of the United States to the land ruled by the Kaiser. Before the year passed the same professor wrote one of the thousand articles to show why this country must needs be even in thought passionately pro-Ally and anti-German. Separate worlds formed within this country and soon ceased to communicate with each other by rational speech: the pro-Ally camp, the pro-German group, the neutrals hated by both, then the pacifists...
...thousand sweltering women from 36 countries gathered in Constitution Hall in Washington last week to participate in the 16th triennial world meeting of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. World President Mrs. Ella Alexander Boole, as a prelude to her reelection, told the meeting that drinking by women is one of the great "causes of maternal death," praised Germany's Hitler because he gave the beverage concession at last summer's Olympic Village to the Deutscher Frauenbund der Abstinenz (Nazi W. C. T. U.). is a total abstainer, supports restaurants which serve no beer...
...entry would outrun the pack to give him three Derby victories in a row. Queen Elizabeth, however, bet ?1 on Mid-Day Sun, quoted at 100-to-7. Mid-Day Sun's best previous performance had been to place third at Newmarket this year in the Two Thousand Guineas race, which Le Ksar...
...lawyer. We telephone Zagreb, Jugoslavia. He cost me $34. We sending telegrams four times. I go to Seattle, get affidavits from seven wholesale houses which sell to me in Wise man how much I buy. I come back to Washington again. I spent already extra thousand dollars. Such a damn fool law. Who the hell he pay make all those proofs when I can't support...