Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Father Divine (see p. 61), they found a ripe windfall in Mississippi's savage blowtorch lynchings of last fortnight (TIME, April 26). This was amplified by newsreel shots of Sit-Down strikes. And Schwarze Korps, organ of Hitler's special guards, was able to do its bit. It filled a front page with pictures of U. S. female wrestlers, headlined it: AMERICAN LADIES...
They sent out an eight-State alarm. At last in Milford, Conn., police appeared at a small Divine "heaven" where a Negro called "Simon Peter" attempted to bar their way. As they later remarked, they "roughed up Simon Peter a bit." One of them descended to the cellar, found Father Divine vainly seeking to "invisibilize" himself behind the furnace. "Peace!" he quavered. "I'll go with you and I'll waive extradition." The Messiah was bundled off to police headquarters in Manhattan. It was after midnight, too late for his three attorneys to arrange bail, so Father Divine...
...flood of international amity which has been sweeping down upon our shores since the Britons decided whom among the fecund Windsors they wanted as their sovereign, comes an intriguing bit of flotsam designed specially for Harvard. Not Albion, however, but Germany is seen as the brother nation extending a small sprig of laurel in an attempt to draw fair Harvard out of her accustomed shell. Harvard has again been honored by being asked to send a delegate to the annual celebration of the university of Goettingen. Harvard has again, been honored by being asked to send a delegate...
...that you catch on to this long before it's revealed, but this does not make the preliminary scene that fools you any less deceitful. Ann Sothern (the escaping heiress) is nice enough, we suppose, and so is Don Ameche, but the only really worthwhile acting is in the bit parts. And even these are typed on the old pattern...
Down the first half mile the two crews rowed bow to bow, stroke to stroke, Harvard always using the slower stroke, Princeton combining the higher stroke with a longer layback. A bit lighter than their rivals, the 181 pound Harvard crew was packing the power in as they took an infinitestimal lead about half way through the course...