Word: whitings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carp and sturgeon trapped in canals and streams. And as spring surged up the Danube groups of young men in national costume moved from place to place, dancing in each village, in a four-week jaunt that dates from the days of the dancing priests of Attis. Over the white, dusty plains of Hungary, where white oxen and long-horned cattle range on the tough grass, the 3,000,000 peasants were out in their fields and the movement of people through the countryside was under way-a seasonal awakening as regular and as mysterious as the migration of sturgeon...
...pine-shadowed lakes of western Ontario. If it was late at night when the King and Queen passed through a hamlet, crowds that gathered to see the shuttered cars flash by waved their flags, but kept silent lest they disturb King George and Queen Elizabeth's sleep. At White River, "coldest spot in Ontario," the train stopped to service the locomotive. On the snow-sprinkled platform Indians, school children, townspeople hoping against hope that they might glimpse their sovereigns, were overjoyed when Queen Elizabeth, motioning the King to follow, stepped from the train. Flustered aides rushed to the welcoming...
...think our white father in Washington needs divine guidance. Won't you pray that our father in Washington will have his mind changed...
...during speakeasy days, an irate 5 2nd Street householder defensively posted a sign reading "Private House"). On 52nd Street is The Onyx Club, Swing's self-styled "cradle," where Crooner Maxine Sullivan hops things up; The Famous Door, where Trumpeter Louis Prima lays siege to the eardrums; Jack White's 18 Club, which goes in for bughouse antics, wisecracks, catcalls, pranks and late hours; The Hickory House, where the "cats" do some of their best caterwauling, put on special Sunday matinees. Chief Greenwich Village branch for swing is the bright-basemented bohemian Cafe Society, "the right place...
...Commonwealth & Southern Corp., with great unction read a silly telegram from a serious man: ". . . Please extend to all of the [Pulitzer Prize] winners my hearty congratulations . . . Franklin D. Roosevelt." Explanation: The club originally planned to honor the Pulitzer winners, requested a Presidential message, changed its mind without notifying the White House...