Word: tropic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Cárdenas a friend of Labor comparable to President Roosevelt, and declared of the F. L. A. W.: "I think the formation of this organization is one of the most significant events that has happened in a long time with respect to all countries from the Tropic of Capricorn to the Tropic of Cancer...
...Tropic of Capricorn runs through the Chaco, the Tropic of Cancer just north of Cuba. The area between the Tropics includes Central America, the jungles of the Amazon, the West Indies, the least habitable parts of Africa, the East Indies and the deserts of northern Australia...
...Tropic Holiday (Paramount): standard slapstick musical comedy exhibiting Martha Raye and Bob Burns against a Mexican background and Dorothy Lamour, who wore a sarong in Her Jungle Love, Hurricane, wearing a serape...
...British East Africa (Malakal, Kampala, Kisumu) to moor their flying boats, crocodiles went for the buoys with enthusiasm, punctured and sank them. Last week, Imperial's engineers in London completed designs for a crocodile-proof buoy-a strong steel cylinder buffered with a semipneumatic fender impervious to tropic teeth...
...plays opened on Broadway last week. None had opened for a fortnight nor would for two months. For, the sun having swung south from the Tropic of Cancer, the U. S. Drama swung out across the city limits.* In a hundred remodeled barns, churches and casinos, on college campuses and at amusement parks, several thousand professional, semiprofessional and amateur performers greased up and caught their cues as the summer theatre season got under...