Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After whispers between the Court and his lawyers, Fascist Hitler submitted to a fine of 800 marks ($190) for contempt of court plus 200 marks ($47) for unruly behavior, then quit the stand snarling, "Those Jewish lawyers were just trying to stage a bit of propaganda...
...jewelry shops in Santiago, a work they performed with a will. Lest this seizing of valuables from helpless jewelers be called "confiscation" the carabineers gave each jeweler "compensation" in the form of a receipt which he could cash in paper pesos. Thus swank Weil's received a bit of paper on which a carabineer had scribbled "350,000 pesos." Marching bands of well-fed unemployed hailed "The First Socialist Government of Chile!" Plaintively Don Victor Navarrete, Minister of Public Works, complained, "The Government offices seem to be full of merely curious visitors," shooed out as many as possible...
Distinctly tabbyish is Edouard Herriot, plump and wavy-haired Mayor of Lyons! whose so-called Radical-Socialist Party won the French Chamber of Deputies election (TIME, May 16). Not the least bit radical. M. Herriot's party decided in caucus last week not to join forces with the mild French Socialists whose support is needed to cement a strong Herriot Cabinet majority. Taking a chance that the Socialists would not seriously oppose him, M. Herriot called by arrangement on new French President Albert Lebrun, was asked to form a Cabinet and produced, 15 hours later, the following safe & sane slate...
...Harvard Museum explorer. . . . The explorer said the Indians were completely naked and without homes, shelter or traps of any kind, subsisting on food gathered in the jungles or shot with bow and arrow. . . . Dr. Wees was unable to photograph the Indians, who were as shy as animals and every bit as dangerous. Their chief menace to the jungle traveler, he said, was their quest for horses and mules which they sought for meat...
...been in New England and I don't think that Boston audiences are bad at all. Everybody told me that they would be cold, but on the contrary, I think they are very receptive. The theaters, and the censors, aren't half bad, We haven't had a bit of trouble, except, of course, that we had to cut the act for the Sunday rule which says no dancing. That law seems funny to me, as I don't know of any other city which...