Word: hoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dillinger, we hear, was loudly applauded when his frank and honest face appeared on the screen of a Chicago cinema. Never having seen the Robin Hood in this tough of the prairies, this maudlin applause seems quite out of place; almost as much as a lynching itself. If Chicago audiences want to cheer the underdog, let them do it heartily, but it would be better to get him first, and prove that he is the underdog. At present he is probably motoring through the Middle West, spraying the corn and the farmers with his automatic exterminator...
...twelvemonth St. Gandhi has almost entirely abandoned his popular anti-British civil disobedience campaign for his unpopular campaign to break the caste system and liberate Hindu Untouchables. Driving into Buxar last week, St. Gandhi's automobile was waylaid by an angry, hooting crowd which smashed windshield, windows and hood, hurt everyone in the car but St. Gandhi. Deeply depressed, the Mahatma planned a three-week fast as penance. It was the first recorded attack on India's slipping idol...
...Wolf (Walt Disney). On her way to her grandmother's cottage, carrying a basket of cakes and wine, Little Red Riding Hood passes the Three Little Pigs' establishment. The two inferior pigs, squealing and cavorting as usual while their brother builds an addition to the house, advise Red Riding Hood to use a shortcut through the forest where the Big Bad Wolf spends his time. They accompany her along the shortcut, playing their gay flute and fiddle. When the Wolf , makes his appearance, imperfectly disguised as Goldilocks, the piglets behave as might be expected. They run home...
...Grandma's, another crisis occurs. The Wrolf chases Grandma and Red Riding Hood into the closet. He is on the point of breaking down the door when the industrious pig arrives and quickly assembles the equipment called for by the situation-a bag of unpopped corn and a frying pan. He warms the corn and pours it into the rear of the Wolfs baggy trousers. The Wolf, convinced that he is being peppered from the rear by a machine gun, scuttles off. The two frivolous piglets arrive in time to join the celebration at Grandma's cottage...
...decade or more Franklins were famed for easy-riding and for their odd sloping hoods. Franklin owners were highly sensitive about their car's appear ance, vociferously defended the esthetics of that hood. Franklin baiters were quieted in 1922 when the hood assumed submarine lines. In 1925, two years after Fanny Brice had her nose remodeled,* the Franklin nose was completely straightened...