Word: erful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those amongst us who have harbored a lingering desire to gambol o'er the greensward unhindered by embarrassing raiment, ever since the appearance of the Merrill's famous treatise, will not have to repress their primordial tendencies much longer. Strong rumor hath it that the Olympian League of West Haverstraw, New York, casting its healthful eyes over our fair land in search of a fertile field, has decided to proselyte the cause of corporate deshabille in these sickly parts. No listless campaign is in store, for the Bernarr MacFaddens up at West Haverstraw have put their undefiled and undraped minds...
...wolves' clothes. In Lady for a Day, Little Miss Marker and Midnight Alibi, the heroes were mollycoddle outlaws whose better natures were aroused by old ladies or a glimpse of Shirley Temple. In Hide-Out, Lucky Wilson (Robert Montgomery) is an even better example of the new school ne'er-do-well. All that it requires to transform him from a night-club chiseler to gentleman farmer is a whiff of Dutchess County applejack and five reels of Mau reen O'Sullivan...
...have now either been returned to their owners or dissipated by mismanagement and peculation. ¶ At "street fair" given by the National Women's Press Guild, Daniel Krassner, circus weight guesser, was suddenly confronted by the First Lady of the Land. "This little lady-" he stammered, "she weighs-er-155 Ib." Mrs. Roosevelt then sat on a swinging scale which registered 145 Ib. Guesser Daniel gave her a cane as forfeit...
...antiques. Lady Scott wrote the music for "Annie Laurie," first popularized by the British soldiers at Sebastopol. She edited the poem thoroughly, made the second stanza read: Her brow is like the snowdrift, Her neck is like the swan, Her face it is the fairest That e'er the sun shone on. . . . Willie Douglas' version: She's backit like the peacock, She's briestit like the swan; She's jimp about the middle, Her waist ye weel micht span. . . . Last week in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Captain Reginald Houldsworth was married to Margaret May Laurie, Annie Laurie...
...grounds be covered o'er with ice and snow...