Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Imperceptibly interest was already shifting from the tables of the diplomats at Nyon to blue Mediterranean waters at a spot near Cartagena. There Leftist Spanish divers claimed to have established contact with a "pirate" submarine paralyzed on the sea bottom by depth charges...
...tale in his Masque of Kings last winter: that to rule brutalizes. The Lower Depths (Albatros). Maxim Gorki, literary darling of the Russian masses both before and after the revolution, wrote The Lower Depths in 1902 to show the disease, despair and degradation of human beings at the bottom of Russia's Tsarist pile. Gorki's pre-Soviet cellarful of morbid, introspective thieves, drunkards and derelicts has been brought to the screen by France's Director Jean Renoir (Madame Bovary, Toni), son of the impressionist painter. In a foreword he announces his film as "human" rather than...
Stressed by cardinals, archbishops and bishops is the "horrible barbarity" of the Leftists: "Many [Rightists] had their limbs amputated . . . their eyes were put out ... they were ripped open from top to bottom, burned or buried alive, chopped to death with axes...
...calls the steps, as in a Virginia reel. Fundamental step is a hop similar to the Lindy Hop. In the words of Variety, "it requires a lot of floating power and fanny-ing." In groups or singly, the dancers do such steps-mostly of Negro origin-as the Black Bottom, "shag," Suzi-Q, Charleston, "truckin'," as well as old square-dance turns like London Bridge, and a formation which resembles an Indian Rain Dance. The Big Apple invariably ends upon a somewhat reverent note, with everybody leaning back and raising his arms heavenward. This movement is called "Praise Allah...
...that stocks would suffer a spring slump, then recover to soar through the fall. Sure enough, the slump started in March, and, assisted by cold water from President Roosevelt, the crack-up of the British commodity boom and the unhappy state of the nation's labor relations, reached bottom in June. For two months thereafter all was well enough, save for the extreme thinness of stock and bond trading. On Aug. 14 Dow-Jones industrial averages reached a high of 190 for the summer. Then, to the confusion of prophets, the whole market began slipping. By last week...