Word: barrels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With or without malice aforethought Dictator Benito Mussolini picked October, one of the hottest months of the whole Eritrean year, to send short-legged, barrel-chested King Vittorio Emmanuele III on his first visit to Eritrea...
Given Red Dust's brazen moral values, Gable & Harlow have full play for their curiously similar sort of good-natured toughness. The best lines go to Harlow. She bathes hilariously in a rain barrel, reads Gable a bedtime story about a chipmunk and a rabbit. Her effortless vulgarity, humor and slovenliness make a noteworthy characterization, as good in the genre as the late Jeanne Eagels' Sadie Thompson. Noteworthy too is the fake jungle, a marvel of impenetrability...
...Chicago, Mrs. Bessie Smolen sued for divorce because her husband had left home two years ago, saying he was going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. For two years she had watched newspapers in vain for news of the event...
...raise funds for a new trial, Rev, Harold Davidson, the white-haired, ill-famed Rector of Stiffkey, England, who was deposed for improper conduct with girls he was "rescuing" (TIME, July 18), last week put himself on display in a barrel on the seaside promenade of Blackpool, next to a girl fasting in a barrel. Crowds flocked to see. Explained he: "I am not going to fast. But I shall be here from 10 a. m. to midnight. While I am in the barrel, I shall be occupied with preparing my case. I want 200 pounds sterling for a special...
...Schneider races have been discontinued, the Thompson Trophy, held in connection with the National Air Races, assumes importance as the world's foremost air speed contest. The event was the climax of last fortnight's meet at Cleveland. Eight swift planes started, among them Doolittle in the chunky, barrel-like Gee-Bee racer with an 800-h. p. Wasp in its fat nose, and the pilot's cockpit far back amid the fanlike tail surfaces. Another starter was minuscule "Jimmy" Haizlip who broke the transcontinental record last fortnight. Before the end of the race Doolittle, his eyes watery with...