Word: yardings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Guarded by a cordon of police cars, Yard proctors, and Colonel Charles R. Apiod, an American Legion auxiliary unit and band marched bravely and unmolested down Massachusetts Avenue past the Yard early last night...
Last night, however, College and City authorities were taking no chances. Squad cars with cops on the running boards protected the parade at each end, while Yard proctors covered the flanks, shooing would-be demonstrators off the sidewalks...
...French wire by anti-tank fire, the wreckage of 20 of them blocking the passage of heavier German tanks. German counterattacks in the Bienwald east of Bitche were evidently more successful. At the northwest end of the line, the French advance from Perl in the direction of Trier progressed yard by yard. Then, this week, along the 80-mile Rhine front from Lauterbourg to Basle, the guns of the Maginot Line and the Westwall thundered at each other the first shots in that sector since the war began. As this activity lengthened into the night of its first 24 hours...
...miniature wife Dolly ("the little woman who has been my right hand man") spend their winters in Manhattan, their summers in New Mexico. Liked by everyone are Artist Sloan's portrayals of city life with its socks down: lean cats scavenging in a snowy back yard, a dust storm on Fifth Avenue, scrubwomen in a library, girls on a roof drying their hair, men lined up at a bar. Less liked are the strange, bright-colored nudes, hatched and crosshatched in red, green, black, with which he has stubbornly experimented for the past ten years...
...Bill Brown in the B backfield who bore the brunt of the shock troops' sole successful sally. Following a 17-yard dash, Brown carried again in from the 11 for the score. Frazier Curtis place-kicked for the extra point...