Word: grips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smashed to pieces. He leaped at the moment it struck, landed on the roof of the dwelling. Simultaneously its walls caved in. Victor clambered up the collapsing roof, was being submerged when another house boiled up in the flood and he clung to its eaves. He lost his grip and fell, but landed on a part of the roof of the barn, went spinning toward destruction as the wreckage piled up around him. Just as a freight car reared up over his head the pile of wreckage gave way, and he was shot forward with the released water. That sent...
Last year Jew Baiter True patented under "Amusement Devices and Games," a policeman's club (Patent No. 2,026,077). Referred to by its inventor as a "Kike Killer," No. 2,026,077 is a short, stream lined hardwood truncheon, with finger grip and leather lanyard. Two "Kike Killers" were handy on the True desk during the interview, the New Masses reported. Mrs. True, the New Masses interviewer was told, carried a less hefty bludgeon called a "Kike Killer, lady's size." Pointing out that "for a first-class massacre more than a truncheon is needed...
...waistcoats, his huge paunch and his absurd poetry, as for his losing racehorses. A onetime rubber in a Turkish bath establishment, he saved his tips, opened a bathhouse of his own in 1890. First all-night establishment in the city, it prospered promptly, enabled Bathhouse John to get a grip on the Democratic vote of Chicago's First Ward which he has never lost. Huge, burly, white-haired, he keeps sacks of potatoes and bread to dole out to his constituents in his office opposite City Hall. A master at achieving personal publicity, he once objected strongly...
...exclaimed what a good thing it had been last week to adjourn the Montreux Conference. Correspondents predicted that on meeting again it will probably end, after a free-for-all, in a stalemate, with Dictator Kamâl Atatürk in any case maintaining Turkey's iron grip on the straits, getting credit for having been most polite...
...South") Caldwell bought the paper in 1928. With the collapse of Caldwell's Southern banking and publishing empire (TIME, Nov. 24, 1930), the Journal regained its Republican editorial policy, limped along under the jury-rig of a receivership, with able General Manager Robert H. Clagett keeping a tight grip on the helm. Last week when Roy N. Lotspeich, socialite president of Knoxville's big Appalachian Mills Co., came forward with $450,000, for which New Orleans' Canal Bank & Trust Co. turned over the paper's controlling interest, it was evident that the venerable Journal had once...