Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Albany. A few hostile boos were silenced by cheers and police fists. With the Mayor, as usual when he is in a tight place politically, was his plump little wife, Janet Allen Walker, carrying her white poodle Togo. "My place," she said, "is beside my husband. If the worst comes, we can go to my Iowa farm." Three hours later when the Mayor left his private car at Albany, the Brothers O'Connell, local Democratic bosses, on hand with 5,000 hollering henchmen gave him hugs of welcome. A 30-piece band blared "He's a Jolly Good...
...insight into the discomfort of penetration into the Chaco if he locks himself into a hothouse, waters the flowers, closes all the windows, and allows a blazing sun to shine through the glass while he rides a stationary bicycle. Even then he will not be bothered by insects." The worst insects are ihenni, vicious black flies that hang in dark clouds in the air. There are also poisonous snakes, jaguars, piranhas (carnivorous fish). Despite the dampness, water holes are 15 to 40 miles apart...
...from the menagerie, heads the protesting property-owners. He caught one of the mon keys in his backyard recently. A woman visitor to the neighborhood found a chimpanzee occupying her parked automobile. Neighbors said the cockatoos were the noisiest. They could not discern which animals smelled worst...
...Colorado soil. A degree of permanence began to invade Denver. Some Denverites began to sleep nights. Others carried Denver's early rough-&-toughness to a plush & gilt extreme in the night life of Larimer and Curtis Streets. A block north was Market Street, one of the U. S.'s worst red light districts. Organized gambling and prostitution were open and reputable until...
Almost every U. S. business has its local and national trade association. At their best they are the American Bankers Association, the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, the American Petroleum Institute. At their worst they are criminal rackets like Chicago's Master Cleaners & Dyers Association and the Greater New York Live Poultry Chamber of Com merce. Not much publicized are the Better Bedding Alliance of America, the Hickory Handle Association, the South western Peanut Shellers' Association. In the mighty realm of rolling mills and blast furnaces is the American Iron & Steel Institute. To head this trade group...