Word: funs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest. The German generals were said to be scattered in spas around the country. The Foreign Office at Berlin was almost deserted and hard-working Nazi editorial writers, finding little news to discuss, ridiculed the "democracy-manufactured" crisis over Danzig, the Free City on the Baltic, and made fun of the "'war of nerves" which the French and British Governments had professed to believe was beginning. In fact, official Germany last week-end put on a complacent air of studied inactivity...
...Yokel Boy occasionally makes fun of Hollywood, more often it imitates it. The show's bright particular absurdity is its first-act curtain-a superpatriotic spectacle featuring, at different stage levels, marching men, moving battleships, zooming planes, happy firesides and village blacksmiths-an assembly-plant version of The American...
That title is now in jeopardy. Dr. Smith installed himself & family in a campus mansion (built & paid for by the university), bought a $3,000 car in a year when faculty salaries were in arrears. No man to stop the fun was Huey's political heir, Governor Richard Webster Leche (rhymes with "flesh"). "I swore to uphold the Constitution of Louisiana and the United States, but I did not take any vows of poverty," Dick Leche used to say. One of L. S. U.'s new buildings is Leche Hall...
...Eric Temple Bell (penname: John Taine), Abraham Merritt, editor of the American Weekly, and onetime Wisconsin State Senator Roger Sherman Hoar (penname: Ralph Milne Farley). Pay is 1? to 4? a word. Many a well-known author who commands higher rates in slick-paper magazines writes these stories for fun. But writers as well as readers take their predictions seriously. Ray Cummings, a veteran pseudo-fictioneer who once was Thomas Edison's secretary, claims to have originated in his stories the word Newscaster and the phrase The World of Tomorrow. Says he: "It is astonishing how many things come...
...When fun-loving, beer-bibbing, golf-playing Prince Fumitaka ("Butch") Konoye, 24, flunked out of Princeton (TIME, March 6), he expected to get what-for from his father, former Japanese Premier Fumimaro Konoye. The family's "face" was saved when Butch was appointed Dean of Japanese-sponsored Tung-wen College in Shanghai's French Concession. Last week, with flying colors, Butch passed an examination given by a conscription board and was admitted to the Japanese army...