Word: waves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their maternity. When a yellow girl, reputed to be the daughter of President Tyler and living in his entourage in the White House, eloped with a white man and in punishment was sold 'down the river,' the matter was so ordinary as to cause only a piquant wave of gossip in Washington society. What was customary, in this regard, of those in high places was true to a greater degree of the generality of slave owners." Result is a melange of black and white, dashed with red. The U. S. Census counts 20% of Negroes as mulattoes. Private...
...Road to Singapore (Warner) is an underweight drama of the tropics, showing a cynical but maligned roue (William Powell) gracefully attaching the wife (Doris Kenyon) of a colonial doctor whose headgear alone would almost have been grounds for desertion. Derived from a briefly exhibited drama called Heat Wave, the picture shows its hero bearing the white man's burden with superfluous fortitude and increasing its weight by disguising his nobility with sophomoric sarcasm. Touted as a ladies' man because he once acted as co-respondent in divorce proceedings, he is pestered by the habitues of an insular country...
...recently dead, sent with them C. O. D. bills for $5. Many relatives, thinking they had been ordered by the persons who had died, paid. Others did not, had Messrs. Pasternack & Greenstein arrested instead. Their sentence: three months, to be suspended as long as they attend no Communist meetings, wave no red flags...
...then did mutiny spring up all at once on so many ships? An ingenious sailor explained this neatly to Lady Astor. Reported she: "A kind of passive resistance swept, as this sailor said, like a wave of gas over them...
...made to the physics, and chemical laboratories, and high voltage laboratory, where the new motor generator set of 200 kilovolt amperes has been installed. The motor is unique, being built specially for the Engineering School by Westinghouse, with a frequency range from 20 to 75 cycles, and sine wave under all conditions...