Word: wear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deportation hearing four weeks ago, Alien Bridges denied in two Nos that he is or ever was a Communist. For all that the next 15 Government witnesses established to the contrary, the Service's Deputy Commissioner Thomas B. Shoemaker might have dispensed with them and saved much wear & tear on Harvard Law School's Dean James M. Landis, sitting as special examiner by the very special request of Secretary of Labor Perkins. Since Mr. Shoemaker had no direct evidence that Bridges actually belonged to the Communist Party when the complaint was filed (March 2, 1938), his only recourse...
With religious and racial persecutions 10? a dozen in Europe, many people forget that in Mexico there has long been, if not a persecution, a very cramping restriction of Roman Catholics. Priests are forbidden by law to wear clerical garb outside their houses and their churches, and the cassock has not been seen in the streets of most Mexican states for many years. An eye opener for U. S. adepts of "selective indignation"* was a photograph circulated last week. It showed a group of Mexican and U. S. prelates, gathered in the patio of the home of Mexico...
...found out that maids in the houses of Madrid noblemen get $4.50 a month, adding-either as a slur on aristocrats or a tribute to maids-that you can tell the maids from the aristocrats on the street because the maids are not allowed to wear hats. Gas is 50? a gallon. Trains are slow and jampacked with soldiers, who ride for nothing. There is plenty of fruit for sale -oranges, plums, cherries-but fish gets mighty tiresome after seven or eight meals in a row, and eggs may be available only two or three days a week. There...
...admitted to blinking at the spectacle of girls swathed in bathing dresses that reached their knees, learned that bathing suits must carry knee-length skirts and have tops that reach the neck. Penalty for less bathing suit: $18 fine. Women cannot lie down on Spanish beaches, and men must wear tops as well as trunks. Last year Pugilist Paolino Uzcudun tried to beat the law by swimming in a dinner suit and top hat, was hauled off to court for making fun of the rules, released when he proved there was no law forbidding swimming in evening clothes...
...gravely trying to put a rat in a bottle, a woman tirelessly pouring water through a sieve. More startling than anything they report about the East is what they report, often unconsciously, about themselves. Their own honest verdict on Au Dung and Y Hsiao Wu: ". . . though we wear out our shoes walking the slums, though we take notes, though we are genuinely shocked and indignant, [we] belong, unescapably, to the other world. We return, always, to Number One House for lunch...