Word: whirlwinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...help North Americans, and especially Albertans, embrace Social Credit, Canterbury's tall Dean will make a seven-week whirlwind U. S.-Canadian speaking tour, then whisk home to snug England...
Spectacles. Meantime, for ten days and nights, the rest of the Fair Grounds was a whirlwind of exciting spectacles. The State amateur baseball championship was settled, while 4-H Club teams grunted through their Kittenball tournament. Back of the Live Stock building fiddlers squeaked in competition, while young men in knitted shirts pitched championship horseshoes. The Fair offered no greater sight than the team pulling contest. The first time F. F. Martin of Bridgewater tried to hitch his huge draft horses to the pulling machine (a truck rigged backwards) the beasts took fright when the doubletree dropped against their heels...
...these were not normal times. Abyssinia has been a member of the League of Nations in good standing since 1923. In addition, curly-bearded Emperor Haile Selassie was daily proving a shrewder diplomat than anyone had suspected. He had appealed officially to the League of Nations and raised a whirlwind of sentimental sympathy throughout Europe...
...know," said Huey Long as he took train back to Washington, "that was one of the easiest audiences I ever won over. I could take this State like a whirlwind. What I did in Louisiana is nothing compared to what I could do in Iowa...
Weary chorus dancers of the Hasty Pudding's forth-coming show "Foemen of the Yard," suddenly snapped into action yesterday afternoon and ran through their steps in top form when Margo, stage and screen star now appearing at the Met. made a, whirlwind visit to the Pudding to give her professional judgment on the new play...