Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...people got together and said they'd not see me black. ... It seems to me New York audiences don't want something good now. . . . Anyway, I'm in damn good company! They wouldn't have Sheridan, or Goldsmith, and it's taken people a pretty long time to swallow Stravinsky. It was a good while before they'd receive Debussy. And God knows Bizet died in a garret! . . . And, dear Lord, what they wrote of Wagner! Dewey ?they killed him: . . . After all, you must not forget he said, 'You can fire when ready, Gridley.? Dewey looked into George...
Houses crumpled like paper. Police and firemen rushed to the scene; 25 were snuffed out when a second landslide crashed down on them. By morning 60 deaths were recorded, near the bottom of the moving mountain was a hole goo ft. deep, 180 ft. wide, big enough to swallow a skyscraper...
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...Portland, Me., E. H. Dunham, 31, thwarted in love, attempted to swallow poison while in a drug store. Store Manager Lyndon E. Harris saw him, hurled an egg which splattered over Dunham's waistcoat, startling him so that he spat out the poison...
This being so, the ability of the Soviet State to dump foodstuffs abroad is not spaciously limitless but definitely limited in 1930. Much as docile Russians will stand from their Dictator, eagerly as they swallow what Stalin tells his press to print, he can still take just so much grain and no more out of their mouths to sell abroad for ready cash...