Word: buttes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would erase them. Said the onetime appeasement-minded former Ambassador to Germany, who was in at the death of Czecho-Slovakia: "If I were given a gun and told to take two shots, I would shoot Himmler [Gestapo Chief], then Ribbentrop [Foreign Minister], and brain Hitler with the butt of the rifle...
Whether it was reading headlines or attending Youth Congresses that did the trick, the previously complacent S. N. Behrman has turned into a fire-eating social commentator. Much to his chagrin, he has now become the butt of his own satire. Last year in "No Time For Comedy" he poked laughing fingers at playwrights who suddenly began to write epics of world importance. Now in "The Talley Method" he has caught the disease whose symptoms he diagnosed so well. Perhaps for the very reason that he knew all the errors he might have fallen into, Mr. Behrman has made...
...Mary Livingstone, his wife. A onetime stocking clerk in the May Co. in Los Angeles, Miss Livingstone, nee Sadie Marks, often depresses her fellow workers by the firmness she exhibits in advancing her convictions. So naturally, on the air, Benny plays a boastful but timorous character, who is a butt for everybody's gibes. He is badgered by Tenor Dennis Day, by Orchestra Leader Phil Harris, by Announcer Don Wilson, by Miss Livingstone-and by his valet Rochester. The Bennys have been married since 1927, have a six-year-old adopted daughter named Joan Naomi. Benny calls his wife...
...anyone who is familiar with firearms and their handling may readily discern, the following items are incorrect: 1) twisted posture, from jutting neck to probable poor foot position; 2) thumb is bent downward, grasping the pistol butt instead of being straight alongside the receiver - and acting as a brace; 3) wrist is not straight; 4) entire arm is crooked, which will cause the recoil to be directed off his body at an angle; 5) left arm is tensely drawn across his body, instead of being in one of the three approved positions - at side, bent with palm flat...
...other museums and private collections but from the U. S. Army and Navy. The exhibit tried to show "what a pastime of man this has been," how it developed, what art went into it. It traced the course from slingshots and clubs through policemen's billies to the butt end of a rifle; from Roman helmets through medieval to modern Italian; from crossbow to a model of a railroad gun-which could shoot a real .22 bullet...