Word: straws
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...long acquiescence in repeated acts ... is evidence that those matters have been generally considered by the people as properly within legislative control." Politics. The decision caused a Dry uproar. Judge Clark was accused of being "in rebellion against the constitution." The Anti-Saloon League said he was "threshing old straw." Dry Congressmen declared that he was trying to curry political favor-a declaration followed immediately by reports that New Jersey Republicans were already considering him as a candidate for governor. Judge Clark promptly declared he would "not consider" any political offers. Enforcement. Prohibition suffered no change as a result...
Time Out has gathered together a few peculiarities of the training table at Dartmouth. Here they are: All the men are required to sip their milk through one straw. "Stan" Yudicky limits himself to a cup of tea and a piece of toast before every game.... "Sandy" Weinner, one of Bill Tilden's tennis proteges and regarded as a coming youngster several years ago is on the Yale backfield squad.... During the halves of all football games played at the Yankee Stadium uniformed men come out and tread down the turf that was dug up during play.... A certain...
...Luton, England (where most English straw hats are made), Rev. J. W. Woodhouse set about to raise $5,000 for the building fund of new St. Andrew's Church, which sum would meet the condition of a promise of $25,000. His method: sitting in the porch of the old church until, after three days, parishioners brought him the money...
...painted clay pig bank. Pita has a pig, Pedro wants one like it. Pancho, the toyman (drawn from a mason who worked on the Morrow weekend abode at Cuernavaca) has no pigs, tries to sell them instead straw horses, jumping jacks, grotesque clowns, birds shaped from polished gourds. Disappointed, Pedro tries to make a pig himself, fails miserably. After many months Pancho makes Pedro a special pig. Specimen of the text: "He [Pita's pig] was painted yellow, with pink roses on his back and a tiny rosebud on his tail. He looked fat, but he was fed nothing...
...Newark, N. J.), found "The Specialist" one of his best acts, wrote it down hoping to sell a few books to friends (TIME, Aug. 26, 1929). When not trouping he lives in Scarsdale, N. Y., with his three daughters. Test copies of the new Ex-Lax campaign included the straw-munching Specialist's accounts of a rural traffic policeman who took Ex-Lax, be- came healthy, smiled so much he was made an official; the yarn of a dentist who did no business, gave Ex-Lax away, made people so healthy they all smiled, became aware of poor teeth...