Word: papered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Variety, show-business trade paper, recently hailed a plan whereby some Pan-American problems might be more easily solved: a tour of South America by Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. This proposal agreed with more earthy U. S. citizens' view that what the U. S. needs in Latin America is not bombers as good-will ambassadors, but more characters like Mickey Mouse (El Ratón Miguel...
...usual punishment in Nazi prison camps, according to the White Paper, for even slight offenses, such as failure to salute promptly, is "twenty-five strokes on the seat, carried out by two guards standing at each side with riding whips. The prisoner is lashed to a board. If he cries out, the strokes are increased to thirty-five. Guards use all their force, sometimes springing into the air so as to bring down the arm with increased momentum...
...Merry-Go-Round." The more inventive Nazi guards at Buchenwald, according to the White Paper, have a game they play with prisoners and trees: "If only a slight offense has been committed, the prisoners would be bound to a tree in such a way that they stood facing it and as if embracing it with their hands pinioned together. The straps that bound them would be pulled so tight that they could barely move. Guards would now 'play merry-go-round' with them. That is, they would force them to make their way round and round the tree...
Died. Opie Read, 86, homespinning Tennessee wit, last of the Mark Twain school, "greatest literary shortstop of his time"; of old age; in Chicago, Ill. Huge, gangling Opie Read wrote 55 books, edited the once famed humorous paper, The Arkansas Traveler. Like Oklahoma Wit Will Rogers, he belittled his own peculiarities by exaggerating those of others. Example: When a relative entered politics, said towering Opie Read: "He was so big that they didn't put him on a stump. They dug a hole for him to stand...
...Cincinnati, Ohio, Hobo King Jeff Davis and his wife celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary. Reminisced King Jeff: "I was 16 and she was 15. . . . We wrote '18' on two slips of paper and put them in our shoes. Then when the marriage license clerk asked our age we truthfully said we were over...