Word: lige
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dismissed when it was found that he could hardly read, could write only his name. Talesman John B. Nicholson related that on the way to court he met a cousin, was informed: "John L. Lewis is some kind of Bolshevik." Talesman Owen Hensley knew that his brother Lige used to work in the coal mines, was surprised to hear that Lige is now with United Mine Workers of America in Harlan, reluctantly stepped from the box on that account...
...made She Loves Me Not (in which Bing Crosby was a Princeton student) and College Scandals. By this time people every where were studying Thurber's nonsensical "telephonebooth" drawings in the New Yorker and laughing at whatever they thought the drawings meant. James Thurber has written an autobiography, My Lige and Hands and collaborated on Is Sex Necessary? Elliot, no such questions in Hollywood, has just directing Charles Ruggles and Mary Boland Never Know...
...times. She began her career as a ballet dancer in Munich in 1923. By 1930, she was one of her country's leading cinema stars, noted for her daring in playing dangerous sequences without a double, her fondness for being photographed in mountainous scenery, her nickname of "Ölige Ziege" (Oily Goat), impolitely coined by a German cinema critic. In 1933, U. S. audiences were able to see Fraulein Riefenstahl in an epic called S. O. S. Iceberg, during the filming of which she lived in a Greenland tent for four months (TIME, Oct. 2, 1933). The same year...
...Udklip Du sendte mig passer ikke altsammen. Kirken er kun en Kryslitkirke, saa den er hverken ny eller smuk og Kroen ligger heller ikke lige overfor, men et godt Stykke derfra, men ellers er det rigtigt. Det er en af vore gode Bekendte Praesten som har Kroen, han var gift med en Søster til Murmenster Andersens Kone. Jeg tror nok det har kostet ham en Masse Penge...
...contractor on the work. Occasionally a Negro would come up and ask for a job. He had all he could use and was forced to turn them away. About dark an old grey-haired Negro, perhaps 65 years old, shuffled up. "Boss, I wants a job." "Sorry. Lige, I have more men now than I need." "Boss, I jes' got to have a job. Dese is de hardest times on an old. nigger I ever saw. I can't get a job nowhere. I walked all de way out here, nine miles in de rain...