Word: hell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tyrol Guzzi Lantschner comes of a famed skiing family, took second in the last Olympic slalom. Their complete mastery is pointed up both by their continual burlesque of normal ski technique and by the beauty of the photography. Chief cameraman was Hans Schneeberger, who shot the remarkable White Hell of Pitz Palu (TIME Oct. 13 1930). To catch the skiing antics of the chief characters of Slalom, he rode along beside them with his camera mounted on his skis, thus avoiding that flaw of most skiing cinemas in which the skier flashes past and is gone. Not only did Cameraman...
...club and not Mel was the chief purveyor of tickets, Mel went to see his friend Frank Navin, part owner of the Tigers. Said Mel with dignity: "Frank, you've got to get me two tickets. . . . They're for Walter Briggs." Mr. Navin snapped: "And who the hell is Walter Briggs?" Mel grew eloquent about Briggs's loyalty to the Tigers, offered to introduce him to Navin. When he did, Briggs got tickets...
...into my newspaper office and one day he said to me: 'Carter, I had hoped to repent my past sins in the hope that when I died I would go to heaven and see Robert E. Lee. But I have changed my mind. I want to go to hell to see the devil burn those Yankee uniforms off Joe Wheeler and Fitz Lee.*- I had thought," continued the sabre-tongued Senator from the side of his mouth, "that I would like to go to heaven and commune with the spirits of Patrick Henry, Clay and Calhoun, Grover Cleveland...
...night last week a 55-year-old importer named Dante Gambinossi took a woman to dine at a West Side restaurant, parked his car meanwhile on 46th Street between Ninth and Tenth Avenues-a district so tough that it has long been known as "Hell's Kitchen." At ten o'clock, just as the pair got back into their car, a youth jumped on the right running board, asked a tip for watching the car. Importer Gambinossi gave his companion a dime to hand him. "Cheap skate!" snarled the young man. Gambinossi got out. At once four other...
Thoroughly incensed at this climax of a long series of complaints, Police Commissioner Lewis Joseph Valentine declared war on the car-watching racket, sent 25 rookies in plain clothes into Hell's Kitchen with orders to arrest adult car-watchers, take urchins to the Juvenile Aid Bureau...