Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Answer: While there is reason for treating Prohibition as a red herring to drive the people of the U. S. off the main trail, it may be faced. Progressive opinion is against any blanket repeal of the 18th Amendment which does not substitute a rational system of public control over alcohol...
Privilege Car. The scene of this play is laid in the lunch counter of a circus train; the characters are all circus folk. Authors are Willard Keefe (Celebrity) and Edward J. Foran, longtime follower of the tanbark trail. Like any circus, their lively melodramatic comedy contains such a plethora of activity that even the most interested customer is unable to take it all in at once. The Colton & Steel tent show may be going broke, but it is certainly not stagnating...
...stacks of Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co.'s plant at Trail, British Columbia, pour billows of smoke heavy with sulphur fumes. The fumes drift across the nearby international border, enter the State of Washington, permeating the broad valley of the Columbia River, poisoning orchards, crops, cattle...
...sawdust trail is winding westward and Billy Sunday, saver of souls, is on his way. Behind him Sodom's smoke curls lazily skyward while a new city rises from the ashes. The surviving policeman declares himself lost in the new order, for he finds the wheels of authority greased with brotherly love rather than with the customary smooth oil of corruption...
...approach to the Samuel Untermyer estate at Palm Springs, Calif., where she knew her quarry was a guest. Reporterwise, Mrs. Patterson noted the "Swedish maid," the "English girl secretary," the "German man secretary," and the "Italian-looking butler" who showed her up "a very steep and rocky, winding trail between the rocks...