Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime in Duquesne, another case of lax guardianship presented itself to the Pennsylvania Attorney General's attention. Martin Sullivan, a 70-year-old Duquesne policeman who rouged his cheeks, penciled his eyebrows, dyed his hair and capped a bald spot with a toupee held on by a string under his chin, always liked to have little girls accompany him on his beat, carrying his nightstick. Four years ago he married one of them, aged 15. She lately deserted him. Last week in Duquesne he was taken to court on a charge of having raped another girl, aged...
...Vicksburg, Miss, one day last summer, young Louis Mize, learning that his wife had gone automobile riding with a married man named Martin Decelle, decided to go after them. He got the sheriff and his chief deputy to go along, so there would ''be no trouble." They found the couple parked on a lonely road. Louis Mize argued for a while with his wife. Then he whipped out a pistol, shot Martin Decelle dead...
...Havana last week there was such tension, such scurrying of Government leaders to U. S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery, the arbiter of every Cuban crisis, as there has not been since the collapse of Provisional President Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin's Government (TIME, Jan. 22, 19-34). This pother seemed to be preparation for a showdown between Cuba's military and Cuba's politicians. Real Strong Man of the Army is ruthless Lieut. Colonel Inspector José Pedraza Calvera, but the military's mouthpiece is Colonel Fulgencio Batista who likes to play at being a dictator...
...Gaudens' Diana of Madison Square Garden, and pulled from its archives drawings and plans of special interest to architects. There were preliminary drawings for the pompously domed Astor's Hotel, pride of lower Broadway in the 1830's. There were the competition drawings by Architects George Martin Huss and John Henry Buck for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. One of the four finalists, the Huss & Buck Gothic cathedral was finally beaten out by the Romanesque plans of Heins & Lafarge, but bears embarrassing resemblance to the cathedral as redesigned and now being built by Ralph Adams...
...Mort A Credit (Death on the Instalment Plan) and Henry Miller's obsessed story of expatriates in Paris, The Tropic of Cancer. In the Library of Congress the two copies of The Mint are kept in the office of the secretary of the Library, mild, good-natured Martin A. Roberts, who permits them to be examined by reputable scholars, writers and critics who can produce convincing documentary evidence of the seriousness of their purpose. One volume of The Mint is uncut. Readers who are permitted to examine the other do so in the Secretary's presence...