Word: undid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the broadcast, Master of Ceremonies Fadiman undid another sheaf of questions, some new, some missed at previous sessions. This time, Physicist Bernard Jaffe knew what kind of fathead might properly be boiled in oil (a fish called a fathead). Composer-Critic Deems Taylor remembered what musical composition a baby's cry reminded him of (Richard Strauss's Domestic Symphony). Catcher Moe Berg identified Garibaldi's Carbonari. Russel Grouse still thought the football team best suggested by an ocean was C. C. N. Y. (book answer: Tulane's Green Wave). Lillian Gish remembered her Browning better...
...that history and geography, as taught in the schools, were dust-dry, had little to do with the price of eggs. An engineer, he began to study what a citizen needed to know. Eventually he designed a series of textbooks intended to give useful answers to useful questions. He undid the old packages (i.e., history, geography), dumped all his information in one basket-social studies...
Light on Kuhn. Next on Martin Dies's hospitable griddle was German-American Bundesführer Fritz Kuhn. Before the Committee last August, Fritz Kuhn did very well by himself, thanks largely to the feckless questions put to him by Martin Dies & colleagues. Last week witness Kuhn undid himself...
...came to an end four months of "economy," in which Congress had pared a total of about $70,000,000 from various bills. In one week House and Senate undid this parsimony three or four times over. Economy looked deader than most mackerel...
Johnny Torrio, tough, buttoneyed little dean of the Prohibition criminal era, was on trial in Manhattan last week for the same offense that undid his pupil Al Capone: cheating on his income taxes. Slit-eyed, impassive sat Johnny as 34 of the Government's 75 witnesses told on him. Then one morning his high-powered lawyer, Max D. Steuer, did not appear in court. Johnny Torrio and two of his four co-defendants pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the Government of $86,000 in taxes between 1933 and 1935. The Last of the Big Shots, who once spent...