Word: brush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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THERE is a story current in the Soviet Union that whenever Maurice Hindus crosses the border into Russia the news is telegraphed instantly to the hamlet where he was born, with the instructions "Brush up the village, boys, Hindus is on his way!" Whether or not the man's first publications, "Humanity Uprooted," "Broken Earth," and "Red Bread," offer openings for such an apocrypha, his latest collation will give no satisfaction to those who think him a blind enthusiast. On the contrary it is only too apparent that he is leaning over backwards in pursuit of objectivity. He relates...
...about Cambridge the sentiment seems to be that Harvard couldn't be as bad as it was against Army last year for two seasons in a row. There is hope in the college that has developed overnight, it seems, for the concensus of opinion after the Lehigh brush, was that Harvard must inevitably fall before the Army's vaunted attack. Advance season reports on the West Point team claimed that Gar Davidson was scheduled for some tough going if he wanted to whip the team into shape with only three returning regulars. He has done what seemed impossible...
...Scottsboro boys, announces that he is now in possession of seven affidavits deposing testimony given by four hundred residents of Morgan County, to whose court the change of venue will bring the Scottsboro case late this month. The testimony, secured by the simple expedient of camouflaging investigators as brush salesmen, shows forth the Jim Crows with every fang aglitter. For example, one mellow judgment runs: "If them lawyers comes here, it will be a one way trip." Many admitted that they had already made up their minds, but "Would conceal it to get on the jury and send those coons...
...show John Public that at the polls he will have a choice between two hellers and one saint, the labels varying according to the speaker. O'Brien is busy pleading for fair play and no quotations; Laguardia occupies himself in smearing his two opponents with the same Tammany brush; and McKee spends his time replying to Judge Seabury's attacks. This is all according to Tweed; but Holy Joe McKee injected an interesting sideshow to the three-ring circus yesterday when he brought out masses of evidence to prove that Laguardia was in thought, and in deed a true Communist...
...picture opens in Dr. Biff Grimes's dental parlor, where he is tippling with his friend Snappy Downer and thinking how sad he still is because, years before, Virginia Brush got married to rich Hugo Barnstead. Into the office walks Hugo Barnstead, to have a tooth pulled. Biff Grimes grimly turns on the gas, apparently planning to leave it on until Hugo is out of the way. Then comes a long flashback. It shows Biff Grimes, in youth a boastful lout, and Hugo (Neil Hamilton) meeting Virginia (Fay Wray) and her less exciting friend Amy Lind (Frances Fuller...