Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country mailmen. As Civil Servants they were more interested in swapping notes on how to give "Service with a Smile" (their Association's motto) ; in swapping routes (a man from Maine exchanging with an Arizonian if their local postmasters approved); in boasting about the number of boxes they visit (Mrs. Annie Massey, 53, of Bay Springs, Miss. on one stretch of her 50 mi., 165-box route, has to travel 17 miles and cross: eleven bridges in an area of one squre mile); in marveling at the streamlined never-stick R. F. D. box displayed at the convention...
...Black was more Hollywood than ever. Russell Birdwell, chief press-agent for Selznick International, told a story: Ten years ago, when he was producing one-reelers on the Hollywood scene, he paid a blonde young lady $5 to pose by the Valentino tomb. The story of the annual visit he made up out of his own head. When the first Woman in Black showed up next year with her bunch of red roses, no one was more surprised than Russell Birdwell...
...White House is crowded with guests these days, and we never go in or out without finding groups of people examining the portraits in the corridor or walking through, looking into the rooms. It is astounding what an amount of cleaning the house needs when so many people visit...
Mexico's Roosevelt- The proud racial characteristics of a Tarascan Indian are a peanut-shaped head, thick lips and a compact physique of great physical endurance. All these belong to Lázaro Cárdenas who is of Tarascan descent. He loves to visit the remote villages and scattered hovels of his own people, the "Indians" whom he is busy raising to the status of ''Mexicans,"likes to say: "We want fewer Indians and more Mexicans!" For them he has a Six-Year Plan or "Mexican New Deal...
...typical Calypsonian inspiration was the visit of Franklin D. Roosevelt to Trinidad. Hammering long words into his melody regardless of accent (a Calypso trait), Atilla the Hun - a sober young father, mostly white, of nine children by his Negro wife - sings on a Decca disc...