Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was a definition: "A Nordic is a Southern Democrat who takes a good stiff shot of 100 per cent American corn-and then votes for Hoover...
Naturally such a play is not for rustics or provincial cityites. Last week the Author-Producer, famed Walter Hasenclever, made the questionable move of taking his farce, Marriages Are Made in Heaven, away from the great German metropoli and out to Frankfurt-am-Main. There good and pious Frankfurters tried to wreck the piece. When God lit a cigar they hissed. When he picked up a saxophone and tooted they booed. But pandemonium did not break loose until God accepted a highball from Mary Magdalene, grew confidential and confessed: "You know I never did create the World. Queer how that...
...worse than an onion, found their gowns and hair suddenly reeking with a liquid that stank like putrid eggs. Gentlemen in evening dress who had never wept, shed rivulets as tear bombs burst around them. Amid frantic pandemonium the élite of Frankfurt rushed stumbling forth pellmell. Meanwhile the good and pious in the gallery-having thrown their last stench bomb-grouped about their clergyman and sang a triumphant hymn...
Naturally defeated Rumanian mothers were quick to scrutinize the winner. Mothers of many noted that she is the mother of one. Mothers with good eyesight were sorry that hers is poor. Mothers who have kept the love of their husbands sympathized with the winner because she has been deserted, many times deceived and is now divorced. Mothers who have never had one elder brother banished from his native land, and another killed by a monkey bite recalled that the Gold Medal Mother has endured these blows of Fate...
Cheers turned to tears when Brazil's Alberto Santos-Dumont debarked at Rio de Janeiro last week. All good Brazilians believe that he invented the airplane before the Wrights. And, because the U. S. this month is honoring the Wrights' 25th anniversary of flight (to which Brazil is sending no official representative), those good Brazilians organized a celebration of their own. They insisted that Senhor Santos-Dumont quit his placid retirement in Paris for a gala demonstration in Rio. He has lived in France some 30 years, earning aeronautical reputation as a pioneer builder & flyer of dirigibles...