Word: rollered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tuckered out last week was Ambrose Jessup Tomlinson, Founder, Bishop and General Overseer of ''The Church of God of A. J. Tomlinson," whose excitable communicants are known to outsiders as ''holy rollers." In Bishop Tomlinson's huge wooden tabernacle at Cleveland, a small East Tennessee town 40 miles southeast of Fundamentalist Dayton, little Founder Tomlinson, 71, brought to a close the liveliest revival meeting in a generation of distributing tracts and organizing holy roller camp meetings among the hillbillies of the Great Smoky Mountains. Some 15,000 of his 100,000 disciples were in Cleveland...
...Roller Derby is the name given by its inventor, a onetime cinema salesman named Leo ("Bromo") Seltzer, to the preposterous endeavor, by a group of mixed couples, to outdistance each other in a marathon race on roller skates. Promoter Seltzer invented Roller Derbies- entrance to which can be attained only by winning elimination races in the Seltzer Roller Derby Association, with 3,000 members at $2 each-a year ago, to replace his Walkathons which he said were beginning to grow vulgar. By last winter he had selected a group of teams who competed successively in Chicago (TIME...
...oval wooden track indoors-a wholesome fresh-air touch, Promoter Seltzer hit on the idea of making the standard distance 4,000 miles, calling the events Transcontinental Derbies, encouraging the illusion by wall maps with bulbs to show the imaginary geographical position of the contestants. Roller Derby teams in the Hippodrome last week were officially racing "the short course" from Salt Lake City to New York, via Route 30. First, after three of the 21 days the Derby is supposed to last, were Millie Duello and her partner Johnny Rosasco...
...married Mary with a high heart and the assistance, as best man, of his friend Bill Hallam (Ian Hunter) who had also loved her with dogged devotion. Bill stuck to his role as friend of the family, while Jock and Mary went careening up & down the economic and emotional roller-coaster on which the rest of the world was riding. Bill saw them have their first epochal quarrel, on the way home from the Tunney-Dempsey fight in Philadelphia, and knew that they were fighting fundamentally because Mary wanted to get more fun out of life while Jock wanted...
...Chamber of Deputies gave U. S. readers a vivid, thought-provoking picture of the various ways native Sardinians-radicals, innocent bystanders, Fascists-reacted to the bewildering news of Mussolini's march on Rome on Oct. 30, 1922, changing sides at the last moment, heroically jumping before the steam roller as it got under way, or simply waiting to see what was going to happen before they declared their allegiance. A strong liberal, Emilio Lussu had been an officer in the Italian Army during the War, was elected a Deputy from the province of Cagliari in Sardinia, soon found himself...