Word: mate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moscow last week the Widow Lenin put in her 2? worth against Josef Stalin's current drive to reduce the Russian divorce rate and inculcate a few bourgeois virtues among Soviet mates. Russians had heard rumors, and foreign correspondents had obtained confirmation, that the Dictator will soon drastically tighten up proverbially loose Bolshevik divorce laws. In a panic to get in under the wire, every Moscow mate who has recently thought of divorce was last week jamming the official bureaus, called "Zags," and they had the entire sympathy of the Widow Lenin...
...months after the new Vice President took office, Mr. Hearst's contact men, James T. Williams Jr. and John A. Kennedy, used to call often on Mr. Garner. Now their visits are few & far between. Nominee Roosevelt made a different mistake. He feared that his running mate might make the ticket look ridiculous. So the Brain Trust sent a bright journalist, Charles Hand, to act as censor of the Garner utterances. To a man who had been a practicing politician when Roosevelt was in short pants, this was the ultimate insult...
...cinematic running mate called "$10 Raise," supplies the perfect antidote for all this. Edward Everett Horton is a meticulous office-clerk who needs this precise advancement in his wordly fortunes in order to marry Karen Morley...
...still warm organ of a young girl murdered by their assistant, and another in which they impregnate her with crackling life from a lightning bolt brought down on gigantic kite-cables. The synthetic woman (Elsa Lanchester) lives to demonstrate complete distaste for the monster intended as her mate before she is blown jnto eternity with Dr. Pretorius...
...flash of a firefly is a mating call. The unfertilized female waits in the grass, flashes in answer. In one common species, investigators have found that the male flashes regularly once every 5.7 sec. and" Mr. Buck discovered that the female replies 2.1 sec. later. Exchange of signals continues until they meet & mate. But other males may join the quest for the same female, and in answering her they get their flashes into phase with the first suitor on the scene. By selecting a cruising male and responding to its signal with a flash from an electric torch...