Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Legislature, to order a primary. Furious, Laffoon got it made a double primary, calling for a run-off between the two leading candidates. His man. Thomas Rhea, won the first round but Happy won the runoff, then threw himself into an election campaign that took him into every Kentucky hamlet from Big Sandy to Mills Point. Aided by Senator Barkley and Franklin Roosevelt's prestige, he beat Judge King Swope, Republican, by 96.000 votes. Then he squared off at Frankfort to bring about the reforms he had promised...
...kidnapped from New Rochelle last February, was washed ashore in Long Island Sound. This was the first recurrence since 1936 of the post-Prohibition atrocities which FBI thought it had stamped out by relentless sleuthing. Last week it was promptly followed by another in Princeton, Fla., a hot-dog hamlet just below Miami, on the highway to Key West. There chubby, blond James Bailey ("Skeegie") Cash Jr., 5½, had been put to bed and left by his mother while she went to help her husband shut their grocery store for the night. Some one slit the rear screen door...
...things that turn Henry Ormandy into a little imperialist Hamlet are religious neurosis and a lofty recruiting speech by Cecil Rhodes. The foils to Henry's neurosis are women, whom he professes to despise, and South African natives, whom he professes to like. Refusing to touch native women out of religious scruple, he (finally) admits (in torment) that he merely cringes at black skin. As regards white women, he claims to follow the footsteps of St. Paul. But when, on a holy pilgrimage to Rome, he is easily seduced by a sophisticated adventuress, he admits he is more pained...
...hour's train ride from Trondheim, in central Norway, is Hell, a tiny hamlet (pop. 1,465) which thrives on U. S. excursionists who have fun sending home Hell-marked postcards.† Situated on hilly ground, Hell (the Norwegian word for luck or slope) maintains two churches but no fire department, has cool summers, bitterly cold winters, sometimes freezes over completely. Last week mild-mannered, blue-eyed Lorentz Stenvig, mayor of Hell, arrived in Manhattan as the guest of publicity-wise Robert ("Believe It or Not") Ripley, gave the press a chance to make free use of naughty expressions...
...burring phrases difficult to understand, his meaning never. Veteran Actor Fyffe's renown as a folksy character is one of the brightest in Britain. His career as an entertainer started in his teens, when in one night he played a gravedigger, the ghost and a strolling player in Hamlet, did a blackface curtain piece and closed the evening with a clog dance, all for four shillings, eleven pence. But his greatest acclaim has been from the music halls where his variety turns have topped bills all over the English-speaking world. Already a notable success in cinema, he will...