Word: hip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from cinema or from the circuses which U. S. cloak & suiters stage in large hotels, would be disappointed by a genuine Parisian premiere. There are no orchestras, no spotlights, no elegant young men in cutaways. The rooms are elaborately decorated but a trifle dusty. Harried vendeuses in black elbow hip-swinging models about. Blue-jowled buyers scribble earnestly in little books. There is much confusion. One thing Paris couturiers have learned from Hollywood: to produce at each spring and autumn opening a certain number of freak gowns, shown only for their publicity value. Thus the Swiss designer Heim, opening...
...stepped from his plane General Sandino looked the part: big pistol on hip, broad sombrero, soft white towel knotted carelessly around his neck, over-size field glasses dangling against unpressed khaki uniform, high top boots. Bellowed the National Guardsmen, "Viva Sandino...
...read musty and long-disproved attacks on the personal integrity of Eugene Meyer, whom he called the "Kingfish of the Federal Reserve." Croaked Senator Long: "What he won't do ain't in the books! Yet we hunt boys with a pint of whiskey on the hip. What's the use of keeping Capone in Atlanta? What's the use of hunting Insull in Greece?" At 5 p. m., worn to a frazzle, he fairly begged: "It's time someone should move a recess." Montana's Wheeler obliged, but the motion was lost. During...
...Shaw Sterling, Governor-reject of Texas, has exceeded his authority in declaring martial law in the gushing oil fields of East Texas and in jamming proration down the throats of oil operators at the point of his militia's bayonets. Although Governor Sterling's straight-from-the-hip action, together with that of his neighbor Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray of Oklahoma, skyrocketed crude oil prices from loc a barrel last year to more than $1, he had to defy a Federal Court to do it. Three Federal judges had ordered the Texas Rail-road Commission...
...from the shovel. Weigand scrambled over the coal pile. A slug shattered his right arm. He dropped his gun on the coal. He picked it up with his left hand. Outside he thought he saw some figures running. He fired at them. Then he fell down, shot in the hip. He got up again. Another policeman ran up. They looked up and down the empty factory streets but they did not see anyone, anything. When they rolled Gobel over he was dead. He had only nine bullets in him?nine...