Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this excitement is displayed against the familiar Goldberg background of monstrous art & architecture. Like so many successful newspapermen, Rube Goldberg started in San Francisco. In 1907 he went to Manhattan, got a job illustrating sports for the Evening Mail. By chance he one day filled out his space with Foolish Question No. 1, which showed a man who had fallen from the Flatiron Building being asked by a bystander if he were hurt. Comeback: "No, I jump off this building every day to limber up for business." Thousands of subsequent Foolish Questions were published, followed...
...automatic heating in the basement. Garages were considered standard equipment and a porch was rated high. On the first floor they wanted a den, kitchen, large living room, medium-sized dining room, lavatory. On the second they wanted two double bedrooms, one single, two baths, six closets. Insufficient closet space ranked first as pet peeve against present housing, insufficient electric outlets second. Most desired feature: a fireplace. Most original desire: an aviary...
Telling you all the hilarious things you will find in "Carnival in Flanders" at the Fine Arts would be impossible in the short space at hand. This piece, produced in France as "La Kermesse Heroique," won the Grand Prix du Cinema Francais, and the Venice International Exposition Gold Medal. And it richly deserves them...
...Hearst's American. But Publisher Knox, as he speaks through his paper, has been by no means so violent as Vice-Presidential Nominee Knox speaking from the stump. The News has generally front-paged a boondoggle story, exuded confidence in Republican victory, given Republican campaign news considerably more space than Democratic. But for campaign balance and fairness most observers rate it at Chicago...
...aren't trying to write a modern Horatio Alger story, but just refuting this story and incidentally filling up this space; and incidentally again, football isn't necessarily the hardest extra-curiricular activity there is. There are others that take up almost as much time and run throughout the year--publications, dramatics, P. B. H., Glee Club. These go from September to June and no great cry about the awful amount of time...