Word: whitings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such intricate concoctions as "Mug o' Joy," "Blackbird Giggles," "Sawdust Specials" (innocuous potions designed to show the superiority of nonalcoholic drinks over alcoholic ones), witnessed a pageant called "World Night" directed by Mrs. Boole, who announced that the war was interfering with the society's work, tied white ribbons on the wrists of twelve infants whose mothers pledged them to total abstinence, minimized the loss of Tennessee from the dry column, re-elected Mrs. Smith president, went home to their dry houses...
...pondering the box office of Broadway Melody and wondering if the talkies were here to stay, could not have believed that 1938-39 would see the movies' greatest success-not a musical with an all-star cast, but an animated cartoon based on a German fairy tale, Snow White, in which dwarfs, gentle beasts, magic, and witchcraft were combined for the pleasure of children. Still less could they have visualized Pinocchio (see cut, p. 33) which promised to be more successful. No prophet of 1929, peering into the coming decade, could foresee the growth and acceptance of a native...
...have regarded her as a hopeless Red before the crash had taken its toll of their certainties. But deeply familiar would have been a Congress debating as it did last week under the same old rules and a top-hatted nine-man Supreme Court paying its respects at the White House...
...price, the House of Commons generally thought that the Lloyd George speech was at best untimely for Britain and were fearful that the reaction abroad would hurt. When hot-headed M.P.s came near to suggesting that peace talk at such a time was the next thing to treason, the white-haired veteran protested bitterly that he was the "last man to propose a surrender." Only Mr. Lloyd George knew precisely why he made such a speech at such a time, but one could guess that the old man, having once conducted Britain through a war himself, would naturally be inclined...
...merely that German submarines and mines in the Baltic blocked the usual Russian autumn shipments of timber to the British Isles. They promptly cabled to Norwegian, Swedish and Danish shipping firms, offering to charter Scandinavian freighters to carry Soviet timber out by way of ice-free Murmansk and the White Sea to Britain (see map). At latest reports the Scandinavians had not yet decided whether to lease their freighters, and anti-Soviet feeling was running especially high in Sweden...