Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nearby Nazis peeked, failed to see the joke, began to slug, and Humorist Curts landed in the Heidelberg cooler. Shrewdly he wrote to his guardian in California: "The beating I received did me a lot of good. . . . Only through this beating did I really get an opportunity to know the German people. . . . How beautiful, how industrious, how serene it is here in Germany. ..." Again the Nazis peeked and, touched by such sincere repentance plus representations from the U. S. State Department, the Ministry of Justice last week decided to release young Curts after only a month in jail...
...when the first international polo matches between England and the U. S. were played at Newport, they caused so little stir that a team of British cricketers, visiting the U. S. at the same time, did not know until they returned home that a team of British poloists had been almost within batting distance of them. Last week, when the twelfth series of matches for the Westchester Cup* took place at the Meadow Brook Club on Long Island, it was the No. 1 international sporting event on the U. S. calendar...
Most people know that George Bernard Shaw was once a music critic, writing for London papers under the name Corno di Bassetto (basset horn, a wind instrument). That he was also an amateur composer was revealed last week when Arthur Pforzheimer, Manhattan rare book dealer, exhibited manuscripts of two sweet Shaw songs, / Lack Thy Kisses and Here She Comes, written in 1884 to verses by a friend, a Miss Radford. > Last fortnight the Basle, Switzerland radio station broadcast a gay little opera buffa, La Contadina, by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, second-rank 18th-Century composer. Mislaid in the Brussels Royal Library...
...Thomas Edmund Dewey, 90%; voice quality very good, delivery & mannerisms good, poise very good. "Resonant, effective, his short staccato sentences ending with a punch you know is in the man himself . . . his appeal is not the appeal of persuasion, but of hard, purposeful drive...
...last 25 years tuberculosis has been beaten down from first to seventh place on the list of U. S. killers. Although doctors know all about the cause, a great deal about the cure of T. B., it is not yet conquered and still runs rampant in the slums of crowded cities. Hardest hit by the white plague is the black population, which loses annually about five citizens out of every 2,000 (general U. S. average: one out of every...