Word: toed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stock companies are often pitiful, struggling organizations. Their managers bear incalculable woes. One of these was voiced last week by George J. Houtain, counsel for the Theatrical Stock Managers Association. Declaring in a letter to the American Federation of Musicians that prohibitive union wages and regulations had made music scarce...
In Dallas, Tex., thieves broke into a wholesale undertaking establishment, made off with 100 shrouds which-they sold to a gentleman who in turn sold them, to girls as the latest mode in party dress.
In Los Angeles, one W. E. Praudweine, knife in hand, set after a large turkey. The bird, angered, kicked the knife into Praudweine's arm, severing an artery. Then it leaped upon the bleeding man, viciously tore his shirt to tatters.
In Tampas, Col., Mrs. Thomas Wheeler listened to the radio in her hotel lobby. On the program was a hog-calling contest being broadcast from Prairie View, Kan. At an especially eloquent call a pig broke out of its pen nearby and charged squealing into the lobby where it settled...
In South Manchester, Conn., Mary Keating, widow, sat in her window for two days while neighbors passed by and nodded to her. One of them, more observant than the rest, entered, found the Widow Keating, her feet in the oven, dead.