Word: awayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heaviest rainstorm. Trick of the device is a rubber, motor-driven blade, pivoted on an axle through the windshield. It revolves so fast (2,500 r.p.m.) that it does not obstruct vision, scrubs glass many times faster than a slow-moving automobile wiper. To help it rub away ice, a melting mixture of glycerin and alcohol is fed through holes in the blade to the outer surface of the windshield. Retail cost, installed in a Douglas...
...Nazi patterns. In the U. S., The Federal Council of Churches asked its constituents to devote attention to Pastor Niemöller's anniversary. In the Union Church of Bay Ridge (Brooklyn), Presbyterian Rev. John Paul Jones acceded. As he mounted his pulpit, he was seized and dragged away by two parishioners in brown shirts. Then a painted prison set labeled "Sachsenhausen" was stood before the pulpit. Mr. Jones appeared behind it, preached a sermon on Niemoller through its barred window...
...heiress; in Las Vegas, Nev. Grounds: desertion. Said Cinemactress Carole Lombard, whose friendship with Gable was publicized in a fan-magazine article on "Hollywood's Unmarried Husbands and Wives" (TIME, Dec. 19): "When he gets a few days off and I am not busy perhaps we will sneak away and have the ceremony performed...
Family Portrait '(by Lenore Coffee & William Joyce Cowen; produced by Cheryl Crawford) tells, colloquially, of the family of Jesus during the Time when He (who never appears in the play) was preaching away from Nazareth. Theme of the play is Jesus' own saying: "A prophet is not without honor, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house." Only Mary (glowingly played by Judith Anderson) has faith in Jesus: His brothers resent Him as a fanatic who hurts their business, their marriage prospects, and the family name...
...syndicated cafe-society column, orchidaceous Lucius Beebe last week digressed to announce an exciting discovery: that holders of marine-insurance policies on personal property lost away from home can collect for lost golf balls. Mr. Beebe further implied that the insurance people themselves had just discovered the fact and that they were scared to death...