Word: hugs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...skull. Out of the ring, his .favorite pastime is to parade down Broadway, dressed in a gold-braided Cossack tunic with cartridge belt, boots, an astrakhan hat. In the ring, his customary procedure is to stroke his beard pensively, glower at spectators. His favorite hold is the Russian Bear Hug, nothing more than an earnest attempt to squeeze the living daylights out of his opponent. Last week Wrestler Kalmikoff, an ardent Communist, took his $25,000 earnings, shaved his beard, sailed back to Russia...
...number of truck makers are specialists. Four Wheel Drive Auto Co.'s product is popular with municipalities for road building and snow removal. Marmon-Herrington also makes four-wheel drives, largely for the Army. Hug, another contractors' and municipal truck, is made in Highland, Ill. Few people suspect that Yale & Towne (locks) is a builder of electric trucks...
...illiterate Communists." Lately another example of Russian scientist-coddling has seemed to certain Britons like the embrace of a selfish bear. But the British can take their science more calmly than the Russians, as they proved last week by a gentlemanly gesture to the man in the bear hug...
...class. Day before graduation, Midshipman Borries stepped before the regiment, received from Rear Admiral David Foote Sellers the Navy Athletic Association's sword as the Academy's outstanding athlete. Following graduation Ensign Borries had his epaulets pinned on, was presented with a big hug & kiss by "Gussie" Mae Hanley of Washington...
Last week Priest Coughlin waited in the wings while his Congressional stablemates (Representatives Sweeney of Ohio, Binderup of Nebraska, Lemke of North Dakota) went through their paces. At 9:40 the burly priest charged theatrically onto the platform, gave his Protestant friend, the Rev. Herbert Bigelow, an impulsive hug, strode up to the microphones. Eighteen thousand people jammed the hall. In the basement were some 7,000 more who had paid to hear Priest Coughlin through loudspeakers, see him for a few minutes after the main show. In the streets some 5,000 lackpenny Clevelanders cocked their ears to loudspeakers...