Word: knotted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amid the barren, mud-colored hills surrounding Chile's Chuquicamata, stood last week a knot of enthusiastic newshawks. They had stopped off on their way home from a Pan-American Press Conference at Valparaiso for a gigantic entertainment specially staged for them by the world's largest copper mines. They were to see one of the world's largest explosions, the firing of 3,000,000 Ib. of dynamite...
Some 50 miles northwest of Burbank the San Joaquin Valley is bitten off by the small Tehachapi Mountains, which link the Coastal ranges to the main Sierra Nevada. Between the Tehachapis and the fertile San Fernando Valley, where lies Burbank, is a knot of rugged, tawny, 3,500-ft. ridges littered with olive-green scrub oaks. Into one of these ridges Pilot Blom had plowed at full speed. For 1,000 yd. the big plane sheared the trees, losing both wings and finally bashing to a stop in a deep ravine. Everyone was killed instantly. Soapy Blom saw the crash...
Third-best liar was Mrs. C. B. Forman of Attalla, Ala. Her tall one: A whirling cyclone blew the knot out of an Alabaman's four-in-hand tie, whipped the tie around a greeting card and Christmas package which it delivered to the Alabaman's cousin in the next county...
Boston Brahmins have never been able to decide whether their most famed painter was born in 1737 or 1738. Last week the Metropolitan Museum of Art cut the knot, arbitrarily picked the first date and gave as a bicentennial exhibition the largest showing of the works of John Singleton Copley the U. S. has ever seen. Forty-seven pictures were on view, borrowed from such diverse sources as Buckingham Palace, the St. Louis Art Museum, Harvard University, Lord Brabourne, the London Foundling Hospital, Hartford's Atheneum, and a Mr. Henderson Inches. The Metropolitan's Copley show traced...
...hurry across the street from her performances and buy standing room at the Opera House. All her life she has kept her interest in the Metropolitan, three years ago became the first woman on its board. When Johnson stepped into the managership she rallied behind him with a little knot of socialite backers, founded the Metropolitan Opera Guild, and was made its chairman. Key to her salesmanship was the ticket coupon book, available in any amount to Guild members only, the coupons redeemable at the Metropolitan box-office or at Guild headquarters against their value in tickets. Not restricted...