Word: madison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until German-American Bundesfiihrer Fritz Kuhn proved last February that he could mass 20,000 followers at one time in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, he and his strutting Bundsters were to most New Yorkers a pack of Dutch comics. But his Garden show gave the shivers to libertarians and plain democrats, made him quarry worth hunting even though his own pack was well content with him. Last week the hounds, set at his heels by New York City's libertarian, Nazi-baiting Mayor LaGuardia, ran down Nazi Kuhn. Charged with plucking $14,548 of Bund funds...
...impressive month of scheduled telecasting of variety, short plays, films and sport to the 900-odd sets in its 50-mile radius, announced that Referee Donovan's kindly wash was coming true. Its engineers had proved, in telecasting the six-day bike race at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, that television could be transmitted over ordinary telephone wire. Engineers had considered coaxial cable, a copper wire threaded through separators inside a copper tube, the only practical ground conductor for the complex television signal. Since coaxial cable costs $5,000 a mile, prospects of a television network had seemed...
Since his retirement Newspaperman Pegler has been living in Madison, Conn, and writing (on a double-keyboard Smith-Premier typewriter he acquired in 1893) a book of reminiscences tentatively entitled 50,000 Deadlines. His language, both written and spoken, reveals the origin of his son Westbrook's self-consciously polysyllabic style. Arthur Pegler finds people parsimonious instead of stingy, takes a libation in preference to a drink. He speaks of a publisher he once worked for as "that ineffable screw...
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...first of these Emerson letters is dated 1814, while Madison was still President and the War of 1812 was drawing to its close. The last was written in 1881, when Emerson's mind was beginning to dim. He could no longer spell the simplest words, recall the simplest names. "He was a good man," he said standing at Longfellow's bier, "I cannot remember his name." To Sam Bradford, "oldest of friends," he says in a last letter, "I have ceased to write, because the pen refuses to spell...