Word: tented
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Congress, the little man who wasn't there is white-haired, droopy-eyed Christopher D. Sullivan. He wasn't there again last week. The 70-year-old leader of Tammany Hall had folded his tent after 24 years as Representative of New York's Thirteenth Congressional District, left the Capital as quietly as he entered it in 1917. He was gone for days before he was missed...
Mexicans like their movies, but not until the last three years have they been able to make what they like for themselves. In the silent days, audiences crowded into tent theatres, sat ankle-deep in dust watching the leaps of Douglas Fairbanks, the tears of Barbara La Marr. They took it all very seriously, bombarding the villain on the screen with fruit and dirt. Occasionally an old. leathery Villista Dorado (Pancho Villa bodyguard) would come down from the mountains for a show, angrily pepper the screen with his six-shooter to save the heroine from the buzz...
...interest this winter on its bonds. Some Katy bondholders have received nothing since 1937; its preferred stockholders since 1931 ; its common shareholders since 1930. Usually an oil-and-granger road, hit hard by the decline in crop exports. Katy recently hauled 320 carloads of lumber, seven carloads of wooden tent poles, 15 carloads of Army rubbers, 181 carloads of mattresses to Fort Sam Houston and elsewhere...
...nothing newfangled would be done with clowns, elephants, acrobats. He gave a few hints as to his intentions. Next year, he said, the menagerie would not be displayed in their usual cage wagons, but in scenes resembling the animals' native habitats. Eventually the big top, with its many tent poles, would be replaced by a poleless canvas hung from 160-foot portable steel towers...
...five-story brick Mizpah Hotel. Four days before Election he was taken to the Washoe General Hospital, on Reno's outskirts. On Nov. 5 he was reelected, by 6,000 votes, over Republican Samuel Platt. But Key Pittman was dying. His heart was feeble. An oxygen tent kept life in him for several hours. Just after midnight, as Sunday began, he died...