Word: belliedness
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Bread may be scarce, but there is no lack of circuses for Nazi Germany. As a respite from parades and speeches 980 good German workmen and their wives, all members of the Nazi "Strength Through Joy" Society, last week piled into excursion trains and went trundling third class across Germany...
¶ James ("Jim") Browning, world's heavyweight wrestling champion: two out of three falls in a match with bullet-headed, pot-bellied old Ed ("Strangler") Lewis; in the Mexico City bullring, watched by a crowd of 20,000.
In 1904, after giving birth to four very handsome daughters, Russia's German-born Tsarina produced an heir to the throne. The boy, a haemophile, was in constant danger of bleeding to death. Honest doctors did all they could for him. Finally the distracted Empress turned to spiritualists, mediums...
The story weaves its way along the threadbare theme of broken-down Southern aristocracy living on the hard crusts of the past. The Connellys, mother (Henrietta Crosman), son Will (Robert Young ) and Uncle Bob (Lionel Barrymore) occupy Connelly Hall but are so strapped that they can no longer get credit...
Charles Henry Dennis went to work on the Chicago Daily News less than a year after he graduated from the University of Illinois in 1881. He started as a night police reporter, was soon covering murder trials at the Criminal Courts Building. Later he was assigned to the anarchist uprisings...