Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drama, that slick-haired, honey-colored Harlem Negress. Josephine Baker, was due to appear. What worried the manager was the lack of welcome in the mien of the young Croatian technicians. When la Backaire, as most of Europe calls her, started to dance, her nubile body girdled with a zone of ripe bananas, the manager's worst fears were realized...
There are three methods of scoring. A kick under the cross bar of the goal posts nets three points; a forward pass completed in the end zone, two points; and a drop kick over the cross bar, one point. By these different ratings, the significance of the kicking and passing elements is made more equal...
...Government officers returning from "official missions" abroad, the Treasury grants "free entry" through the customs barrier. "Free entry" luggage is passed without inspection at the pier. Many a Congressman during recesses of Congress goes to Panama (wet) for a vacation, pretending to make an official study of the Canal Zone, and thus becomes eligible for "free entry" on return...
Between these two cases, as in a twilight zone, lies the treacherous field of common-law marriage. Only the hairline of intent divides such a legal union from the lover-mistress relationship...
...Hoover added: "I am anxious to clear up the twilight zone, as far as we can between authoritative and quotable material, on one hand, and such material as I am able to give from time to time for purely background purposes on the other...