Word: chokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Queen changes herself into a witch. Unlike the original Grimm Brothers' Queen, this one does not waste time trying to comb Snow White's hair with a poisoned comb or choke her by pulling her laces too tight. With white eyes leering from her hag's hood and a pimple on her nose, she pops up at the hut after the dwarfs have gone to work. Snow White forgets the dwarfs told her not to let anyone in. She takes a bite of the red, delicious-looking poisoned apple. The apple brings the sleeping death for which...
...translation "One Who Carefully Distinguishes Between Right & Wrong." In any Eastern country the populace always frantically cheer their Lord and Master,* and both Alexandria and Cairo went deliriously wild last week over Farouk I. In Egypt some $50,000 will buy enough triumphal arches and paper streamers to choke the main streets of Cairo, and this was the sum its civic fathers proudly spent. Everywhere one looked was green- the Egyptian national color-everywhere the flag of Egypt, green with a white crescent and three white stars...
...typescript, ran to over 1,600 pages in manuscript, 618 pages in print, and was going to be a successor to Gone With The Wind. Critics were not so optimistic. Some believed that the newcomer's size might be due to glandular trouble. Others thought it might choke to death on its title...
There are more ways to choke a dog than by feeding it hot butter. There are more ways to increase circulation than by giving away cheap encyclopedias. Last week two U. S. monthlies tried two unusual means of adding to their readership...
Unfortunately the Home Secretary had opened, by mentioning King George III, direct access of attack upon King George VI by the few republican M.P.'s and the lone Communist M.P. last week. Speaker the Rt. Hon. Edward Algernon Fitzroy, a congenitally stanch Monarchist usually quick to choke off belittlers of the Royal Family, was obliged to let them have their...