Word: glassing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usual, bibbing Legionaries were up to their traditional tricks-stopping automobiles and street cars for "inspection," tossing water from hotel windows, turning in false fire alarms, smashing plate glass windows, halting traffic with mid-street card and crap games, poking female pedestrians with electrically-charged canes. But, because of the Legionaries' advancing years, the presence of their wives and a curt preliminary warning from Commander Ray Murphy to "act your age," such highjinks were far less frequent than at past conventions. Serious members were sobered by knowledge that its 18th convention marked a critical milestone in the Legion...
Sculptor Hoffman had to use all her tact to wean the Field Museum trustees from their original scheme for the Hall of Man. Their idea was that it consist of a series of painted plaster figures, equipped with real hair and glass eyes...
...bankers were apparently aware of this attitude. Furthermore, while Franklin D. Roosevelt led all the rest on a list of men whose views on finance met with public approval, no banker showed up in the list until it had passed down through Ogden Mills, Senator Glass, Senator Borah, Alf Landon, Herbert Hoover, Henry Ford, William L. Lemke, Dr. Townsend, Father Coughlin, Norman Thomas...
...editorial offices of Diario de la Marina. Meanwhile a truck parked in front of the newspaper El Pais blew up with an explosion heard for miles, wrecked El Pais's two-story building, shattered the Church of Nuestra Señora de Monserrate across the street, broke glass storefronts for a distance of six blocks, killed four, hurt 27, and was credited with having done $200,000 damage. Police at once threw a cordon around the area, discovered the touring car full of dynamite and disconnected its time-clock before it could explode. "Today's dynamiting is truly...
...that pit legend says that Golfer Travis never sent a ball until the semi-finals of the Amateur Championship in 1908. Then it cost him the tide that he never again came close to winning. Garden City's older members, poised comfortably in their leather chairs in the glass-enclosed lounge that runs along behind the famed green, have wondered ever since if they would again look out on a scene which, for pure excitement, could match the Travis tragedy. Last week they looked...