Word: freaks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Frenchmen elected their first 100% Communist Senator last week in the droop-mustached, doctrinaire person of M. Marcel Cachin, editor of L'Humanité. Another freak feature of the poll, which left the Senate still an assembly of oldster moderates: Premier Laval was elected Senator twice over, has until Jan. 14 to decide which of two constituencies he will represent for the next nine years...
...When references to snakes are unavoidable, the Star generally compromises by identifying them as "moving objects." Last week Star editors were horrified when a syndicate comic strip, "Moon Mullins," revealed Uncle Willie's wife Mamie as a onetime snake charmer, showed her performing in a freak show with a huge serpent coiled around her neck. Hastily the resourceful Star substituted non-serpentine "Moon Mullins" strips from...
...people say "like something in the movies" they usually mean like something in a Cecil B. DeMille movie. The most extraordinary fact about Director DeMille, however, is that, while the cinema has been progressing steadily toward sanity, he has made himself a greater figure in the industry as a freak in 1935 than he was in 1915 when he was in tune with...
...last month Undergraduate Anne Sibley climbed into a bus, started East. Since self-sufficient Undergraduate Sibley refrained from telling her Chicago parents where she was going, the Eastern Press was soon conducting a search. Last week the search ended on a barker's platform outside a Coney Island freak show. Undergraduate Sibley's job was to stand dumbly but alluringly beside the freaks while the barker was spieling. She worked from noon to midnight, earned $15 a week, lived with the tattooed lady...
Among the latest cases before Lord Hewart was a freak suit brought just before Christmas by whimsical Playwright Alan Patrick Herbert. That eminent contributor to Punch contended that the House of Commons persistently violates its own Licensing Act by serving alcoholic beverages in its own restaurant without a license. With everyone in holiday spirits, the Lord Chief Justice settled himself on King's Bench and addressed the Attorney General, Sir Thomas Inskip: "I see from the list what the nature of this case is and would like to point out that I am still, through no fault...