Word: treads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps Cambridge has its attractions. Sophomoric rhapsodists can find much amusement in professors who tread hats and coats and the self respect of students with equal lack of fooling. The moronic intelligentsia works off the escape complex in a celluloid dosage of Will Rogers. H. T. P., whom the Vagabond admires, can wax lyric over the spire of Memorial Church, can weight the Church and Widener in the balance and find them not wanting, and can borrow the better puns of his admirers. There are those who listen to the radio, even unto the weather report. But at present...
When the Continental Congress established the U. S. Marine Corps in 1775, sharp-eyed Benjamin Franklin marked on the drums of the recruiting officers a rattlesnake with the inscription "Don't Tread On Me." The Marine Corps drums still bear that motto. In the act of 1798 which confirmed the Marines' organization, there was provision for a Drum Major, Fife Major, and 32 drums & fifes. In 1799 a band was formed at the Marine encampment in Philadelphia, then the U. S. capital. When the Marines moved to Washington, Drum Major William Farr began to give open air concerts...
TIME'S publishers entertained many an offer from business organizations for resumption of the broadcasts under joint sponsorship. All such negotiations failed because "The March of Time," to be effective, must be independent. A fearless presentation of news might well tread upon the toes of the cosponsor, cause him to feel that the advertising value (to him) of the program was impaired...
...officials firmly insist that a pause between all programs, with no sound except the muffled tread of the Ghost in Galoshes, rests the listener's ears and increases his enjoyment both of what he has heard and of what he is going to hear. Typical B. B. C. service...
...sorry, Patrick," said he, "now you can tread on mine...