Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Saxophonist was Bud Freeman. Negro Roy Eldridge blew a clear, jabbing, powerful trumpet. And when the band got in the groove with Strut, Miss Lizzie, the thin, brilliant, swooping clarinet runs of lean, sardonic Pee Wee Russell brought Toto's Green Haven Inn to its feet...
...book gives a simple, functional description of male and female sex organs, with clear diagrams, and a chapter on pregnancy and childbirth which many adults might do well to read. A unique feature of the book is an account of the human sex act. Love, says the doctor, "is extremely enjoyable. . . . And all the things that go with love and marriage . . . are normal, natural and right...
...reversed a Chicago Federal judge who had enjoined an A. F. of L. Milk Wagon Drivers' Union from picketing, because that activity violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The injunction could not be granted, ruled the court, because the controversy involved a labor dispute. The ruling was a clear-cut victory for the Norris-LaGuardia Act, which limits the granting of injunctions in labor disputes, paves the way for collective bargaining...
...girl often visited him, took messages to Communists outside. The Brazilian police found her a handy, unconscious guide to the hideaways of agitators. One day six Brazilians went to the house of Elvira Copelo, were asked in for coffee. When Elvira Copelo at length rose to clear away the coffee cups, one of her guests stood up behind her, slipped a piece of wire around her neck, strangled her to death. The other guests then stuffed the body into a suitcase, lugged it away. Exhibit A in the trial of Luiz Carlos Prestes last week was a letter purportedly written...
Keynote speaker was a noted surgeon, Dr. Irvin Abell of Louisville. The division of labor, he said, is clear. Any ulcers which do not heal with rest and special diets must be dealt with by surgeons. As for surgery, he went on, most experts believe it does little good merely to snip out the ulcer and patch up the stomach or intestine. For the incorrigible stomach keeps on brewing its corrosive acid. Most authorities hold that the best procedure is to cut out "three-fourths to four-fifths of the stomach." Since the stomach is primarily a churn...