Word: zipping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tomatoes, "bigger and better" every year, have mostly discarded horses. Where, years ago, wagon loads of 80 to 100 baskets, stretched for two miles, and slowly wended their way toward the receiving platform, now motor trucks with loads of 200 to 600 baskets occupy that length of street and "zip" to the platform, unload, "zip" away again for another load. "J.T.D." gave humanity a big lift when he brought the idea of canned soup to a reality, and both he, and the farmers are reaping the golden harvest as a result. FREDERICK T. ROBERTS Philadelphia...
Zionists. In Pittsburgh last week met the embattled Women's Zionist Organization of America, the Hadassah. Mrs. Zip Szold, Honorary Secretary, read a report commending the policy of President Irma L. Lindheim, who had criticized the head of the Zionist Organization of America, Louis Lipsky (see col. 2). Soon afterward, Hadassah re-elected Mrs. Lindheim president...
...must have seemed to the audience at Brattle Hall yesterday evening that the two were unsuccessful collaborators. There is a flavor to the work of this fellow Shakespeare as his past productions have taught the theatre-going public which suffers from dilution. As a rule his work lacks the zip and go of most modern drama. It is powerful stuff. But here, in conjunction with the more American touches of Mr. Massey its tempo seems slow, its phrasing stilted...
...This, the highest paid assemblage ever seen on one legitimate stage, enacts for the fourth time in the U. S. (the first, 1898) the fortunes of those shockingly Bohemian actors and actresses who strutted in famed Sadler's "Wells" during the reign of good Queen Victoria. To the zip-gobbling audiences of this day, the play offers mellow humor and pathos-qualities whose commercial values are doubtful. To the student of the theatre, to the lover of stage personalities, it is irresistable. Dramatist Pinero in Trelawny has created a young playwright-one whose theories and struggles against the theatrical...
Died. William Henry Johnson, 84, known as "Zip," for more than 60 years exhibited by P. T. Barnum and others because of his stunted figure, comical head, dark skin, great nose and amusing tuft of hair; in Manhattan of lobar pneumonia and bronchitis...