Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Belgium, dodging the expense for over a year, last week decided abruptly to continue across her own territory, right up to the North Sea, the "Maginot Wall" of steel and concrete pillboxes which guards France from the Swiss border to Luxembourg...
...Helen Kane to remove her coat, arrange her hair like Betty Boop. Defendant Fleischer produced three babyfaced young women who do the singing for Betty Boop cartoons. A court anteroom was darkened and three Betty Boop cartoons and one reel of a Helen Kane picture were projected on the wall. After this, Justice McGoldrick ruled that he had had enough, demanded records and music sung by Helen Kane and Betty Boop before he made a decision. Grown fatter but still talking with the voice of an indignant doll, Helen Kane explained her difficulties...
Where Mr. Stoddard's conflicting polices of trading with the belligerents and keeping perfect "isolation" will lead us is not hard to say. Wall Street is adept at this game but knows where it leads. The only true method--and neutrality is a manifest possibility--is to keep our goods off the seas, or protected by a squadron of our own destroyers, and to give up our frenzied isolation and look for a strong ally before it is too late...
HARVARD LAWRENCE MacIntosh, l.f. l.f., McDermott Burbank, r.f. 2b., Freeman Owen, 2b. c.f., LaRonde Bilodeau, 1b. s.s., Wall Regan, 3b. c., Sharp McTernen, c.f. 3b., Ziniti Carr, s.s. r.f., Gallagher Blackwood, c. 1b., McFadden Avon, p. p., Hamilton or Phelps...
EFFICIENCY EXPERT - Florence Converse-Day ($2.50). The blueprints on the office-wall, The graphs and the statistical Tables of averages, all Praised him mightily: , "Venite Exultemus." So Author Converse begins a poem on the Depression that might have turned out a satire if her Christian sympathy had not got the better of her partisan indignation. A 172-page narrative in various verses, Efficiency Expert is another indication that long poems are coming out of hiding, may once again come to be used effectively as satire, narrative or tract. Author Converse's poem is a tract in the form...