Word: whirlwinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modesty, prudery, and other such doubtful virtues to the winds, she offered to bestow a resounding kiss in her best cinema manner upon anyone who should score for dear old Loomis. The boys rose to the occasion too. In fact they couldn't be kept down, and in a whirlwind afternoon routed the amazed Deerfield behemoths by some such score as 28 to 0. One lucky halfback tallied twice, and all the heroes were publicly rewarded before the cheering school the next...
Sherman Bowles, a big, ruddy whirlwind of energy, was quick to defend himself. His newspaper imports newsprint from Finland, and, he said, the contract calls for payment in gold. The gold was in escrow and the Government was formally notified...
Sandwiched in between the fencing were two whirlwind boxing exhibitions between members of the Italian International Boxing Team...
...unemployment relief New York currently needs $50,000,000. Mayor LaGuardia proposed a stiff tax on business. This raised such a whirlwind of opposition that he dumped the question in the lap of the Municipal Assembly, forced it to act quickly by cutting off all relief payments for four days. Last week the Assembly voted three taxes which needed only the Mayor's signature for enactment. First was a 1/10% tax on gross business receipts above $15,000 a year. Second was a tax of 15% on amounts paid in Federal income taxes. Third was a euphemism for "lottery...
...Export Fatigue." Energetic Dr. Schmitt, a keen sportsman and a Mounted Group Leader of Equestrian S. S. Troops, was brought to bed by nervous exhaustion. He had worn himself out on a whirlwind tour of the Fatherland to drive home the slogan: "Stimulate Exports as a National Duty...