Word: tinfoil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week ended, Culprit Lino Rivera bobbed up in a Brooklyn court on a charge of trying to use a tinfoil slug in place of a nickel in a subway turnstile. Promising once more to be good, he was paroled to a city probation officer...
...there any hay out there?" Carole comes back declaiming: "This is the greatest thing for pictures since the Warner Brothers stretched forth their hands and said, 'Let there be Sound.' " Deciding to stay all night, Carole appears for dinner in a blinding dress apparently made of tinfoil, determines to take the young man to Hollywood...
...only yesterday tasked himself with unpacking the casteroed hair-trunk which arrived a week ago from the sequestered loneliness of his cabin on the heights of Monadnock. Among the tobacco tins and books he found one small red box. It bore the legend "Salome: Gold Tipped," and in the tinfoil lining there was a stale, forgotten cigarette, still slightly fragrant with rose...
...Mills & Tinfoil First full-length Republican campaign speech was delivered by Secretary Mills in Boston. Excerpts: "Tonight we're going to take off some of the tinfoil and look at the facts. ... I challenge Governor Roosevelt to state specifically what the present Administration has failed to do in this emergency and what steps he would have taken. ... In the face of the shocking system of government existing in New York City, Governor Roosevelt's failure to clean up his own party and assert his moral leadership bars him-honest, amiable and attractive gentleman that he is-from spiritual...