Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After reading your article on Allentown, Pa. Call's Columnist Pumpernickle Bill, I realized that excepting the novels of Helen Martin and Elsie Singmaster, little or no attention has been paid to the peculiar Pennsylvania "Dutch" (or German...
...infallible formula: the whole thing is put in the hands of Representative Sol Bloom. Born 67 years ago in Pekin, Ill., of Polish-Jewish descent, reared in San Francisco, Sol had developed into a Manhattan real-estate man and music publisher before Tammany Hall, sensing his peculiar talents, elected him to Congress. For the past 14 years his Neanderthal forehead, nose and chin have distinguished him in Congress. So have his activities...
...hand. He golfed with celebrities like Bing Crosby, and joined the Lakeside Club where the rumor was that he amused the members one day by standing husky Cinemactor George Bancroft on his head in his locker and closing the door. Through his social success, John Montague retained his peculiar shyness. Whence he came or where he got his money, he told no one. His friends were either too afraid or polite to ask. There were rumors that Montague had gold mines in Arizona. This was merely because he often disappeared into the desert for months at a time...
...Russians, she decided, for all their stolid appearance, "were far more acute than Englishmen." Except for "the smell peculiar to all things Russian-rotten leather or duck," she found them more attractive than they were painted. Spanish bullfights (where she admired the bulls more than the matadors) were much more interesting than European picture galleries. A Rubens subject was "nauseating because she looked as if she would melt into thick fat if she were squeezed." Another painter gave his girls eyes "like rotting goose-berries." French women were "very fidgety" but she took careful notes on what they could teach...
...arrived 1 min. 10 sec. after the beginning of the eighth round. As Braddock took a wobbling step forward, Louis planted a right on the point of the champion's sagging jaw. The peculiar, wet-sounding detonation of what experts considered one of the hardest punches ever delivered in a prize ring told spectators on the rim of the park exactly what had happened. While Louis stood in a neutral corner, not bothering to look back. Referee Tommy Thomas counted ten over the unconscious ex-champion...