Word: pets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Berlin and Bremen silent, Hamburg became the official broadcaster of the German High Command's daily communiqués (which fell hours behind schedule "owing to communications difficulties"). Dr. Karl Scharping, propaganda pet of Goebbels, asserted from Hamburg: "Germany ... is a force which grows. . . ." When the Hamburg radio announced the fall of the city, Deutschland über Alles filled...
Loose-shouldered Ensign Adolf Kiefer, who began breaking world backstroke records ten years ago, helped Wally Ris build up a top-heavy 46-point team total for the Bainbridge (Md.) Naval Training Center. With strokes to spare, Kiefer copped his pet 150-yd. backstroke event and the 300-yd. individual medley. Cracked 26-year-old Adolf Kiefer to himself when he banged his funny bone against the side of the pool on the last leg of the backstroke: "What am I doing in here anyway? I'm too old for this sort of thing...
...TIME (Dec. 30, 1940) devoted considerable space to the approaching marriage of Gargantua, the gorilla, and the popular pet, M'Toto. Perhaps due to my own negligence, I have never heard anything more about the proposed match. Can you bring me up to date on this...
...fussy notions of morality upon all New Yorkers, stoutly defended his Commissioner, weaseled that Moss had not indulged in censorship, but had "only passed on the application for a theater license." Meanwhile Playwright Elmer Rice and Director Margaret Webster resigned from the board of the Mayor's pet project, the New York City Center of Drama and Music, because Moss helps run it.* And Lee Sabinson, producer of Trio, sued Moss for $1,000,000 damages...
...improvident old grandpa (Charles Winninger) addressed innumerable times as "Grandfeathers"; or who can be convinced that a little boy, not trying to be smart-alecky, would say of a flower, "It stinks swell"; or who can be touched by the heavy-handed comedy and pathos lavished on a pet hen named Miss Easter. Sunday Dinner may become a sentimental hit, but as an attempt to tell a moving story about real people, it is embarrassing...