Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clerk. In 1917 he enlisted as a private in the U. S. ambulance service, rose to sergeant, transferred to the air service as a balloon observer, came out a first lieutenant. After the War Roscoe Turner became a lion-tamer in a circus, later a barnstorming j stunt pilot, wing-walker and parachute-jumper. He toured the country advertising Curlee Clothing Co. of St. Louis and, in 1924, married a dark-haired, pretty Corinth girl named Carline Stovall...
Education's Left Wing resides in or near Manhattan, earns its living chiefly by teaching at Columbia University's Teachers College. It is happily convinced that the present social & economic order is dying. Its favorite word for the future is "collectivism," which it refuses to define. But it knows that it will make small progress toward definition or reality until it draws forward-looking educators throughout the nation to its side. To that end it began last week to publish a monthly magazine called The Social Frontier. Besides sonorous editorials on its Cause, the first issue contained several...
...that time preferred to remain anonymous. When last week's audience approved the passacaglia, prouder than Victor the valet was a plump motherly woman who by choice sits in the balcony. She had known Koussevitzky when he wore an ill-fitting Prince Albert, a shaggy mustache, high wing collars. She had stepped out of her class and married him, given him money to form an orchestra, tour the provinces and down the Volga. Exiled from Russia she helped finance him in Western Europe, became his shrewd self-effacing partner in a music-publishing concern which has sponsored the works...
...week. $12.40 for a 39-hr, week. Most important wage basis in a Chinese laundry is the liberal meal of rice, chop suey and tea served at noon, much relished by the industry's Negro employes. After 15 leading launderers had been summoned for wage violation, Louis Wing, president of Wing Moisture Blower Co. and a power in the Chinese Laundry Alliance, pledged the local NRA enforcement officer that the laundrymen would henceforth keep their books in English, hang their codes upside up in a conspicuous place, pay NRA wages...
Over & over right-wing newspapers kept demanding how these things could have gone on without official protection. Stavisky parallels were easy to find. Chief Inspector Fressard of the Lille police received threats of violent death unless he dropped the case. Two Paris shopkeepers, wanted by the police to tell what they knew about Paul Mariani & friends, were found shot dead in a compartment aboard the Paris-Mediterranean Express...