Word: tor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Malibu, favorite watering place tor cinema folk, the conflagration crept within a mile of the cluster of rich houses before it turned aside with a change of wind. As it was, the homes of Cinemactors Charles Farrell & Lionel Atwill burned flat...
...Cummings-Arrow Editions ($3). The practice of bringing a sentimental classic up-to-date usually opens the door tor a display of easy superiority over antique quaintness. The distinction of E. E. Cummmgs' ballet based on Uncle Tom's Cabin is that the poet has accepted completely the elemental seriousness and flowery melodrama of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's masterpiece. Ingeniously impressed into four episodes, the first ending with Eliza's escape as she starts across the ice, the last with Tom's magnificent entry into Heaven, the ballet gives a free play...
...Manhattan, searching a sidewalk ora- tor they had arrested, police found only a pamphlet, entitled What To Do When Under Arrest-One Cent, published by the radical International Labor Defense. What...
...disappearance from the Wyoming in Oslo, Norway of Midshipman Kenneth Barr was discovered when a Norwegian girl came aboard tor a tea dance and said he was expecting her. Soon found was a Norwegian chauffeur who said that Midshipman Barr had dismissed him near Lake Gjersjoeen, ten miles from Oslo, remarking, "I am going to picnic in the woods." All Norwegian radio stations then inquired for Midshipman Barr and helpful Norwegians responded by deluging the U. S. Consulate at Oslo with telegrams, notes and post cards conjecturing where he might be. Ultimately Picnicker Barr was arrested by Swedish frontier guards...
...last year and again this year, Sena tor Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia with many backers has sprung up to question Mr. Wallace's contention. For the chief disputed amendments-licensing and bookinspecting for processors-have nothing directly to do with carrying out AAA's program of "balancing" production of cotton, corn, hogs, wheat and other basic commodities. These new powers are for the purpose of letting AAA extend its control over other commodities. AAA answered this charge only in general terms. Said Chester Davis in a broadcast to farmers last month: "Unless the Act can be made...