Word: heels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston's smart, pleasant suburb to be pastor of. First Church, Congregationalist, which in 265 years has had only twelve pastors. First Church has 1,013 well-fed worshippers. Next month Dr. Bradley is leaving it to take charge of Union Church in Boston's down-at-heel South End, on the wrong side of the New York, New Haven & Hartford tracks...
...Commission sent to Geneva a report stating that Saar police can no longer be relied on and are now hand in glove with the Secret Police of Adolf Hitler across the border. Up to a few months ago Saar Catholics, offended by Nazi attempts to bring their church to heel in Germany, were expected to influence the plebiscite strongly, but by last week the poll seemed so likely to favor Germany that a frantic rush had begun by Saar citizens to climb on the Nazi bandwagon...
...attend to his personal affairs. But: "In the face of the cry of the masses for me to help them solve their problems, I cannot elude my responsibility." He demanded an immediate election for a regular President and Assembly. With that he hit the Mendieta administration on its Achilles heel. Mendieta sacrificed his own chances to be a full-term President by accepting the Provisional Presidency and now he wants a run for his money. Last week he gave Grau's followers, the National Revolutionary Party, permission to celebrate Grau's arrival. But he was seriously alarmed...
Maxine de Shone, tall statuesque burlesque queen now appearing in "Hazel Nuts from Brazil" at the Park, smiled upon the reporter, and he wilted. Pirouetting upon her heel, the girl with the golden voice winked at her boy friend, and announced herself ready to tell all about her private life...
...newspaperman conduct a wedding ceremony. When Madero goes to Mexico City, there is no further work for Villa. He gets into a scrape for killing a bank cashier who is slow about cashing a check for him, finds himself exiled to Texas where he becomes a down-at-heel barfly...