Word: opener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Waterfront riffraff and cheap gangsters of all nations, plus open and tawdry vice, are typical of famed Marseille, but so too is the soaring, indomitable spirit of its sunny French citizens. The true Marseillais is bold, humorous, boastful and greathearted. Last week stout, jovial, bearded Louis Frichet, one of the most popular citizens of jostling, neighborly Marseille, became the hero of a holocaust which made news the world around...
...before the deadline, thousands of Jews were dragged out, and shipped off to the Polish border. Soon some 20,000 including children wrenched from schools and orphanages, were herded at the frontier. Thousands were forced over the German line. Many preferred to stay in the open one-mile strip between the frontiers but 12,000 made their way into Poland. The Polish Government, threatening retaliation, made representations to Berlin. When negotiations were arranged the deportations halted. Jews on the German side were returned to their homes. Those already in Poland will have to pay their own way back, Nazi officials...
According to London's Sunday Express, swank couturiers who cater to the best-dressing Duchess of Kent promptly made plans to open branches in Australia. Bustling George Garcia, the Australian Chairman of Aspro Ltd. which sells Europeans half a billion headache tablets yearly, crowed: "I am elated. Australia has always been keen on the Royal Family. We want a governor general from outside the Dominion who can make unprejudiced decisions. The Duchess will appeal to Australians because she is beautiful and chic and a mother...
Major reason for present-day gate receipts of $75,000,000 during an eight-week college football season is the increasing prevalence of wide-open play, more pronounced this year than ever before. Almost every major college has at least one better-than-average runner, one better-than-average passer. The forward pass, written into the rules in 1906, wandered around as a hit-or-miss side line for a quarter of a century. Now, since it has become the darling of the Rules Committee, the pass has developed into a major technique-classified into spot, crossover, alley, flat aerials...
When 13-year-old Clara Howard of Washington. D. C. emptied a lapful of peanut shells into an open fire, the flames leaped up, licked her neck and sides. After weeks of painful healing she was left a hopeless cripple, with her chin grown to her chest, her arms to her sides. Prof. Robert Emmet Moran of Georgetown University saw the little Negro girl at Emergency Hospital last year, determined to try a new experiment in plastic surgery: a living graft from another person of the same blood group (TIME, Dec. 13). Clara's distant cousin, John Melvin Bonner...