Word: maim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great worry in Sonja Henie's life is that she will kill or maim herself at her very dangerous profession. To keep the ice clear of objects that might send her arsy-versy when she is traveling at 35 m.p.h., her troupe is forbidden to wear hairpins, the electrical superstructure over the rink is scrupulously vacuumed. Among Sonja's skating shoes, of white calf lined with chamois which cost her $45 a pair, and her skates, which are made by John E. Strauss of St. Paul, Minn, (sometimes described as "the master skate man of the world...
...Knights of Columbus have taken a blistering oath to rip out the wombs of Protestant women, crush their children's skulls, maim and strangle their sons & husbands...
...cold bright stars. Ethan (Raymond Massey) climbs to the top of it, his boots actually squeaking in the glittery surface. Pathetic little Mattie (Ruth Gordon) lies down on the sled with him and, with a whistle of wind, they vanish over the far side of the slope. How they maim themselves, instead of smashing out their lives on the big tree at the bottom as they intended, is told in an epilog...
...that Germany is rearming!" He estimated that within a year the military air force of the Fatherland-which is forbidden to have any such air force by the Treaty of Versailles-would equal Britain's. ''Ten days of intensive bombing of London would kill or maim 30,000 or 40,000 people, and in a short time 3,000,000 or 4.,00,000 would be driven into the country. . . . Under the German Government organization all that is needed is the decision of a handful of men to launch an attack without notice. It is a danger...
Divorced. "Prince" Serge Mdivani, sleekest of Russia's "Marrying Mdivanis," divorced husband of Cinemactress Pola Negri; by Mary McCormic, operasinger; in Los Angeles. Grounds: cruelty (he threatened to "maim and disfigure" her, called her "terrible names," locked her in the bathroom, paid no bills). Two days later Singer McCormic heard that a hotel hostess named Grace null was in a Los Angeles newspaper office hawking details of the property settlement. Raging, she sped thither, slapped the informant soundly. Prince Serge defended Miss Williams: "She had a perfect right. . . . I have given her the keeping of all my private papers...