Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...among House characters in the next Congress. Winner of the Democratic nomination was Judge "P. L." Gassaway whose first name is, though few Oklahomans know it, Percy. Judge Gassaway has piercing black eyes and a mop of flowing black hair, wears a broad-brimmed black felt hat, black tie, wing collar, black suit and high-heeled black cowboy boots. He was never a cowboy. He comes from Coalgate in Coal County, is the son of a missionary to the Indians and is famed for his peculiar behavior on the bench. When his raven-like eye spots a prominent onlooker...
...escape such destruction, an Argentine locust could wing his way to the U. S., he would there find less wheat to eat than at any time in 50 years. If he crossed the Atlantic to Europe he would see slim pickings in the seared fields of France or by the banks of the Danube. And in Germany he would see crops so poor that people must eat potatoes once thrown to the pigs. In Russia the roar of 140,000 tractors hastily harvesting a premature crop, the shrill cries of village children scampering after the reapers to scoop up lost...
...Francisco. Fuel oil supplies were so low that in hotels and apartment houses hot water was curtailed. Many a filling station hung out the NO GAS sign. One ferry was converted to burn wood. But nonunion laborers continued to load cargoes, and Seattle had hopes that the conservative wing of its unionists would avert a complete walkout...
...Ride- At St. Ansgar, Iowa last week were gathered 2,000 people to see the town's first Fourth of July celebration in 20 years. They saw a plane lose a piece of wing fabric, spin dizzily into the town's main street, burst spectacularly into flames. Incinerated were the pilot and four joyriders, one a woman...
...bankruptcy law. A Manhattan newspaper promptly headlined the item: EGGS (INC.) BUSTED. A quality poultry farm handling as many as 100,000 chickens, 1,000,000 eggs a year. Eggs, Inc. sold pheasants to New York's famed restaurateur, Henri Charpentier, who insisted that they be killed on the wing. It gave them a special flavor to be shot down while tense, said he. President Edwin J. Walker of Eggs, Inc. took live birds to nearby hunt clubs, induced sportsmen to shoot them down for him. He declared last week that Eggs, Inc. was not "busted." It simply wanted...