Word: hun
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood in 1914, Erich von Stroheim was the symbolic Hun officer whom people at that time would pay to hate. It was rumored that he came of a noble Austrian family. His knowledge of European military technique and court etiquette seemed to bear out his claim that he had graduated from the Imperial Military Academy. During years of penury in the U. S. he had been a flypaper salesman, riding master, lifeguard, section hand, bundle wrapper, and forest ranger. When Hun villains were no longer in demand he sold Carl Laemmle the idea for a picture-The Pinnacle. Laemmle changed...
...show and not a fig leaf among them. Though there may be considerable humor in one livid nude with triangular legs sprawling on a studio chair (the fat ladies who pose for Independent artists seem to have a distinct disinclination to stand up for any length of time), a hun-dred such nudes leave an impression of acute melancholia. Sprightlier are the political pictures: ruined speculators selling their clothes in Wall Street; Uncle Sam pouring poison into a bottle of whiskey; City Hall Riot, painted on two sheets of wall board by the members of the John Reed Club* which...
Never point a gun at anyone unless you want to kill hun. "Unloaded" guns are always the ones that go off.-U. S. Folklore. In Washington, three weeks ago, Senator Harry Bartow Hawes of Missouri presented Speaker Nicholas Longworth with a revolver. It had once belonged to Bandit Jesse James and Speaker Longworth amused himself by pointing it at a newspaper photographer who took his picture. In Bay City, Mich., small Nathaniel Conklin saw the picture, showed it to his sister Dorothy, said. "I can do that too. Wait, I'll show you." Nathaniel Conklin then ran upstairs...