Word: haire
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More than 20 years ago Mr. Crump was Mayor of Memphis. In 1930 he was elected to Congress, served two quiet, unpretentious terms, gracefully retired. Now a jaunty, strapping six-footer of 60 with an unruly shock of hair, he controls all offices in Tennessee's largest city. The Crump dynasty is supposed to be financed by various forms of "protection money" from bootleggers, gamblers, et al. Be that as it may, Boss Crump keeps taxes low, picks good competent men for public office and-unusual in the South-cultivates and delivers a solid block of Negro votes.* Result...
Albert Payson Terhune is a big, beefy man who cultivates untidy hair and a vast reputation for knowing and loving dogs. On the subject of Man's Best Friend, he has written millions of well-paid words. Last week small Editor Morris Fishbein of the American Medical Association's Journal editorially jumped roundly upon large Mr. Terhune for injudicious talk about rabies...
...general ideas of the Roman and of the Protestant churches are negative Christianity and do not, therefore, accord with our soul." Goebbels: "Positive Christianity is humanitarian service . . . Christ himself would discover more of His teaching in what we [lay Nazis] are doing than in [the Church's] theological hair-splitting." Göring (in a speech abusing the Church): "We [Nazis] have informed the Church that we stand on the basis of positive Christianity." Thus increasingly the Nazi Party imposes on Germans the mystic idea that Christians should turn away from their churches and to the Party to find...
...life had been ruled by his syphilitic infection, so his death was occasioned by its ravages upon his heart and blood vessels." In Henry's daughter Queen Mary, "the evidence of congenital syphilis became, surely, all too plain. Her face was prematurely old and scarred, her hair thin and patchy; she had a 'square head,' with the forehead abnormally protruding." Queen Elizabeth, Henry's other daughter, "suffered a heritage of ill-health from her father . . . knew that she would never bear any children of her own." Queen Anne "was small in stature, and small women...
Boarding the Normandie at Southampton one day last week, President Floyd Bostwick Odium of Atlas Corp. dispatched to his office in Manhattan a radiogram as crisp as his sandy hair. Read the message: "Closed deal 30 minutes before departure...