Word: hob
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wells; Arthur Dreifuss & Willard G. Gernhardt, producers). Marion (Edith Barrett) has been a sadist from her crib. In childhood she incurred the hatred of her entire family by pushing her sister Joan down a flight of stairs, leaving her a lifelong cripple. Grown up, slinky Marion continues to raise hob. She brings home an Italian sculptor who falls in love with Joan, does a splendid statue of her. Mean Marion smashes the statue. Not until Act III is she persuaded to shoot herself...
...Canada was ripe for change. Her prairie provinces, after years of low grain prices and inspired by the New Deal across the border, were ready for political revolt. The C.C.F. (Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, nicknamed "Cocofed"), a radical organization not unlike the U.S. Farmer-Labor Party, was preparing to raise hob. Canada's banks had stood unharmed through the Depression, but the West was bitter against them for not lending more money at lower rates. Bank scandals in the U.S. prompted Canadians to demand a similar airing of Canadian banking. Proposals were made for "nationalization of credit" to take...
Outside the U. S. the Depression has played hob with politics. In Britain a Coalition Government has been plodding along through crises of which last week's was one of the gravest, with great riots in London. France has swung from Right to Left while Germany amid civil blood & thunder was swinging in the other direction. A revolution turned Spain from a monarchy into a republic. China has gone from chaos to chaos. As an antidote for hard times Japan has taken a fling at militarism. South America has spawned too many revolutions to count. The King of Siam...
...omitted to say that Hob Shuler who received the Prohibition nomination would also be in the race: he ran on all three tickets and received over 300,000 votes, while McAdoo received 262,000 and Tubbs 204,000 and the papers are predicting he will win in November...
...timber there is a fire stabbing the sky. Before it sit a few solemn figures nodding gently to themselves thinking or casually dozing in the heat. Around them a ring of naked, glistening figures are cast against the sky in studied crouches. The American Indian has raised the old Hob again...