Word: irregularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...major sport 20 years before, was in its infancy. Norwegian skiers skied standing up straight. After he had learned to ski on barrel staves, used them to win a race for which the prize was his first pair of real skis. Hannes Schneider decided that, for long, steep, irregular Alpine slopes, standing up straight on skis was impractical. He started to ski in a crouch. In the next 30 years skiing in a crouch not only became the accepted way to ski but, by making skiing easier, made it popular all over the world. Hired as a ski teacher...
...with front-line service on the Western Front through pressure from Berlin liberals. At the age of 23 he was already a potent figure. He was spared to live through the bitter years of Germany's civil war and inflation, to draw with biting irregular line the gross Prussian junker, the rise of the Nazis, the swinish profiteer and his fat mistresses. He escaped Nazi concentration camps by going to the U. S. in 1932 to teach at the Art Students' League. Nazis did the best they could by burning his books, persistently referring...
...prosecuting attorney. Born in Monroe, Wis. 70 years ago, Satirist Art Young has been sensitive to but never suffered from the things which have made George Grosz hail with delight his bourgeois cottage and his refrigerator. Still hale & hearty. Artist Young's private life is consciously bohemian and irregular and he is devoid of real hatred. Typical of his line, his satire and his personality is his drawing of himself lecturing before a woefully empty hall. One bored listener is getting up to walk out. Caption: The Uprising of the Proletariat...
...this year). In 1931 Big Tony got ten days work in the spring, was laid off until June, then worked for the rest of the year, a total of some 31 weeks. The next year he was sick for two months and his work was even more irregular. In 1933 things started to pick up, and his job held through until June 1934. In August and September of that year he got in about six weeks' time, was laid off until the middle of November. Since then he has been a ''steady" worker, which means that...
...Germans and as a complete surprise to most Austrians, Dr. Schuschnigg was engaged in seizing supreme power for himself and his following of Catholic bigwigs by a drastic Cabinet decree in effect making the Chancellor a Dictator. He was able to make this move because the 120,000 irregular "troops" of the Austrian Heimwehr had fortnight ago divided in a split so drastic that Vienna Heimwehr Leader Major Emil Fey last week actually challenged to a duel the aristocratic founder of the Heimwehr, Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg. Sly Dr. Schuschnigg has for months been taking discreet measures...