Word: foule
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...traitorous Roehm which appears either doctored, or light-struck and deliberately used for that reason. The dead Nazi, while far from pleasant looking, was not deformed by a Cyrano nose as this picture suggests. It would almost seem as though the editors . . . had sought by fair means or foul to obtain a picture which would fit the character of a monster of sensuality. . . . EDWIN HYDE LAMBERT Prescott, Ariz...
...kill himself. But the next time the mood got him Hallem was too quick for his saviors. Roiter, too. fell on evil days. To an international insurance company on whose board of directors he served came a cropper. Thanks to Roiter, its affairs were wound up before they fell foul of the law, but the directors' reputations for smartness were not enhanced. Roiter resigned from the university, got many an abusive letter in his daily mail. He knew that his invalid son. best of his family, was dying. When Hallem's son brought him the news...
...numerically to his own: eight battleships, twelve cruisers, nine destroyers to five battleships, three second-line battleships, 23 cruisers and a flotilla of gunboats, torpedo boats and destroyers. But Admiral Togo also knew that Admiral Rozhestvensky's fleet was undermanned and under-provisioned, that all its bottoms were foul from its long sea voyage, that it could not carry enough coal to dodge all the way around Japan to Vladivostok with the possibility of being forced into an engagement on the way. With his fleet drydocked, scraped, painted, remunitioned and in review order, Admiral Togo waited confidently...
...Belgian Congo the dread tsetse fly, transmitter of African sleeping sickness, was a menace. The cinemactors protected themselves by anointment with a foul-smelling oil which repelled the tsetse flies. Miss Booth, however, contracted malaria and dysentery, fell from a tree and almost fractured her skull, suffered a sunstroke. When she returned to Hollywood, her young husband, who had remained behind, got their marriage annulled. Wife of one of the Trader Horn actors sued her for $50,000 for alienation of affection. And M-G-M doctors took her in charge. Uncertain were they whether her debility...
...many a hard knock. Your Money's Worth (TIME, July 25, 1927), by Stuart Chase & F. J. Schlink, and 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs (1933), by F. J. Schlink and Arthur Kallet, lifted the lid on some cynical advertising secrets. Last week, amid cries of "Foul!" from its partisans, advertising took a shrewd blow to the midriff from a onetime hireling. Onetime Adman Rorty is no reformed copywriter, for his heart was never in his job ; no reformer either, for he thinks the present "unstable equilibrium" necessitates "the adman's foot on the throttle, speeding up consumption, preaching...