Word: kiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Alton, Ill., famed as the home of Giant Robert Wadlow, was publicized as the theatre of operations of a latter-day Carry Nation, a Mrs. Irene Kite, 32. Last December Mrs. Kite got an ax, went to seven taverns in Alton & environs, grimly reduced their slot machines to broken metal. Last fortnight, with her ax she demolished two more-as she called them-"one-armed bandits.'' Charged with malicious destruction of property, Mrs. Kite was arrested, jailed because she declined to sign a bond...
Much as U. S. ministers approved of Carry Nation's activities two generations ago, the Ministerial Association of Alton backed up Mrs. Kite last week. Its 16 members announced that they "endorsed and appreciated" her accomplishments, declaring: "We note that this lady with the ax is to be prosecuted. . . . We wonder at the sudden zeal of the officials...
...informal invitation with which Dr. Einstein habitually greeted callers at his office during his business career. In New Faces he functions as a mysterious friend of the scalawag producer, executes nothing resembling his press-release pose (see cut, p. 30) with the vaudeville team of Lowe and Giant Kite, who have bit parts...
...papers taken from captured soldiers-were almost completely limited to evidence of Italian intervention. The press summary handed newshawks listed 100 separate documents. The book contained 101, the hastily suppressed 101st carrying an overlooked reference to German participation. All this deeply planned strategy was knocked higher than a kite at week's end by the bombs that fell on the Nazi battleship Deutschland, the shells that blasted Almeria (see p. 22). Upon receipt of the news, Alvarez del Vayo presented to the Council his country's formal protest. As usual when faced by direct action, the delegates, rushed...
...Kolliner '38 had the chief feminine low-life part, and Roger F. Duncan '39 that of the main male comic, Sergeant Kite...