Word: butts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...director or some other sports sinecure, Harlow has had such titles as Assistant Professor of Ornithology or Curator of Oology for the off-seasons. Even during the fall, when it appears that all the time he can afford to take off is devoted to lighting one cigar from the butt of another, his recreation comes from devouring learned-looking pamphlets from botanical Societies...
...Expelled a U.S. citizen, Lecturer Waldo Frank, for saying in an open farewell letter that Argentina's foreign policy "secretly humiliates and offends Argentines." Twenty-four hours later, six pluguglies representing themselves as "investigating agents" entered Lecturer Frank's apartment and, with fists and revolver butt, beat him within two inches of his life...
...printed in this morning's Scuttle-butt, all S-O's are scheduled to take a series of shots and vaccines before they leave in late August. Each man is to be given two tetanus shots, three typhoid injections, one yellow fever shot, and a small pox vaccination...
Three years ago Mussolini was still popular in Italy. Today, said Matthews, he is the butt of crude jokes. More cynical than Anglo-Saxons, the Italians scorn Mussolini for the unforgivable Italian sin: making a fool of oneself. On May 9 their attitude was bored or ominous silence when Mussolini stalked to the reviewing stand on the Via Impero to celebrate the tragic farce of African Empire...
Died. Joseph M. (for Maurice) Weber, 74, the short, barrel-bellied butt of the old Weber & Fields knockabout comedy team; in Los Angeles. For more than half a century gangling, goat-bearded Lew Fields shook and belabored goat-bearded little Joe Weber for his ignorance and insults, joined him in mangling the English language ("I am delightfullness to meet you"), shared with him the glory and profits of being the most popular low-comedy team in theater history. Products of Manhattan's lower East Side, the two grew up together, formed their own road company at 18. Lew Fields...