Word: handly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been closed. Soviet reporters, while handling such news with mittens, have made clear in Pravda and in Izvestia (News), official organ of the Soviet Government, that the Russian priest of today is generally as much a "worker" as anyone else in the Soviet Union. Typically he is a factory hand, clerk or farm worker who preaches after hours. His sermons take for granted complete loyalty to the Stalin State and he glibly cites from the works of Marx and Lenin passages which suit his purposes. Indeed Soviet newsorgans have been complaining that often the village priest seems able to confound...
...they met, on a staircase backstage in Manhattan's Hudson Theatre, where they were both rehearsing for Maid of Money. That was the first of the 21 plays in which they have since appeared together. At their meeting courtly Alfred Lunt bent to kiss Miss Fontanne's hand, flopped down the staircase. The play tried out in Washington, flopped too. The romance was more durable. They remained in Washington with George C. Tyler's company, played there in A Young Man's Fancy, and parted, Miss Fontanne to Chicago with the company, Mr. Lunt to rehearse...
Picture an irate mother flinging her offspring over her knee and raising her palm to give him a good one-so urged famed Psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung at a Manhattan luncheon of the Students International Union. "Suddenly," he said, "her hand falls slowly to her side. She has thought of the psychology book, and is wondering what its advice would be in this situation. The arm does not raise again, and the poor child is thus deprived of a valuable educational experience...
Since Hartford's battered Bat Battalino abdicated his title in 1932, there has been no undisputed world's featherweight (126 Ib.) champion. Last week Promoter Mike Jacobs, who has had a hand in settling the championship of practically every other division of boxing, inaugurated his tenure of the boxing rights at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden by matching the two ranking featherweight contenders in an effort to produce one acknowledged champion...
...Undefeated or untied by any eleven this season Santa Clara's "Bronchos," after a scoreless first quarter, mowed down weak, eager Marquette. Most notable of the six touchdowns was a one-hand catch after a 42-yd. dash. Score: Santa Clara 38, Marquette...