Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days of Farmer Burns and Frank Gotch wrestling was, indeed, an exhibition of skill and strength. When Ed ("Strangler") Lewis, Stanislaus Zbyszko and Joe Stecher began to trade their "world championships" with peculiar regularity, U. S. fans became perturbed. In the 1920's the sport sank deep in the doldrums...
Next day, at a portable altar deep in flowers, Rev. Paul Schulte celebrated the world's first aerial Mass. He ended the service with thanks to "God at the helm." Three icebergs were spotted in the afternoon. As the ship passed through the cold air above them, its electric radiators were switched on. That night, after most passengers were asleep, the Hindenburg ran through a severe squall, held so steady no one was awakened...
...Methodist statistics, Columbus, Ohio. Last week in the Columbus Public Auditorium gathered 616 delegates to the 32nd Quadrennial Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. These bishops, ministers and laymen were to be in session for at least three weeks, threshing the accumulated problems of four years. Aware of the deep eco nomic differences among Methodists, the church press had been anxiously predicting a "Battle of Columbus." Battle was joined last week with a few popping squibs...
Docking in Manhattan after a year in Sweden, Greta Garbo granted the first formal interview of her career to newshawks. After ten minutes of evasive chit-chat she rose to go, was cornered by deep-bosomed Cinemactress Fifi D'Orsay who gurgled "GeeGee, do you remember Fifi? I am so 'appee...
...racketeer in the early 1920's and Al Capone's onetime boss, for an ordinary revenue law violation (TIME, May 4). Bail was set at a supposedly prohibitive $100,000. Last week a plump, elderly woman walked into Manhattan's U. S. District Court, dipped deep into her black purse, pulled out a fat wad of bills, carefully peeled off 97 crisp $1,000 bills, four $500 bills, ten $100 bills. A gaping clerk counted them, recounted them, made out a receipt for the bail of John Torrio, paid in full...