Word: hip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old Irish peer. Reason for his visit's brevity: Fortnight ago a Paris pickpocket whisked a passport from the right hip pocket of his trousers. Threatened with Ellis Island detention, he roared: "I have no fear of the place. ... I hear they have some new murals...
Elsewhere in the north there was more trouble. Japanese reinforcements pouring all week long through Peiping, put the total Japanese force in North China under Lieut. General Kiyoshi Kazuki at well over 90,000 men. Through driving rain and mud hip-high to the short-legged Japanese, lines were pushed straight through to Kalgan in Chahar Province, giving Japan final control of the vitally important Nan-kow Pass and Peiping-Kalgan railroad, the line that Japan must have if she is to control North China (or ever attempt to attack Russia through southern Siberia...
...infallible is Sam Liebowitz's smartness. Trying a case before mixed Italians and Irish he was trying to show up a policeman. "What's that bulge in your hip pocket, a black-jack?" "No, it's a handkerchief and a medal," said the policeman, pulling out the handkerchief. "Oh, so you're a hero, eh?" snapped Liebowitz. "No," said the cop, pulling out a religious medal, "a Roman Catholic...
...Erich Salomon, made its first appearance in TIME Inc. publications as does this, taken last month by an enterprising amateur, a young woman who concealed her small camera in her handbag, cutting a hole through which the lens peeped, re sembling an ornament. She practiced shooting from the hip, without using the camera's finder which was inside the purse, before achieving this result...
Died. His Highness Raj Rishi Shri Sewai Sir Jey Singhji Veerendra Shiromani Dev, Bharat Dharam Prabhakar, 55, Maharaja of Alwar, exiled in 1933 by the British after an agrarian uprising for which he was held responsible; of apoplexy, possibly resulting from hip and shoulder fractures received when he fell down a stairway upon leaving a squash court; in Paris. He traveled with 400 trunks and a retinue of 25, including an orchestra...