Word: sackfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cotton-picker. The Memphis Press-Scimitar and a few other newspaoers were enthusiastic. Most Southern papers, however, declared in effect that even if the picker were good they would not like it. The Memphis Commercial-Appeal printed a cartoon of a pop-eyed old darky trailing an empty cotton-sack and exclaiming: "Ef'n it doose mah wuk-whose wuk I gwine do?" The Jackson, Miss. Daily News, unimpressed by the fact that the Rust brothers are conscientious Socialists and have promised to cushion the impact of the machine on Negro labor, advocated sinking the picker in the Mississippi...
Into Acting Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring's Washington office burst a man wearing red shorts, tennis shoes, an Indian war bonnet, a Kansas sunflower, with red paint daubed on his face and bare chest, a long white sack under his arm. Whooping, "Feathers instead of bullets," the visitor dumped 40 pounds of white feathers over Secretary Woodring's desk, scampered out before the Cabinet officer's return. Caught two hours later, still seminude, featherbrained Frank ("Woody") Hockaday, 50, onetime Kansas business man who now considers himself an apostle of peace, was lodged in the Gallinger...
Died. Earle Lewis Ovington, 57, first commissioned U. S. air mail pilot; after long illness; in Los Angeles. In 1911 he flew a mail sack two miles from Garden City to Mineola, L. I. on nine successive days...
What Emil Jannings was to the German, what Charles Laughton is to the English, Harry Baur has long been to the French cinema. As France's No. 1 character actor, however, his methods are his own. Above a body like a meal sack ap pears a face as soft as putty. On the face wriggle a corrugated nose, two eyebrows which appear to have disassociated sets of muscles. No dabbler in dilettantish restraint, Actor Baur roars like a lion, whispers like a snake, employs every known trick of the method which more inhibited actors contemptuously describe as "mugging." This...
Admirers describe Poet Frost as looking like "Puck in a sack-suit," his voice as "the barking of an eagle." Others think he looks like a Yankee hired man, talks like one. A Further Range, with Andre Malraux's Days of Wrath (TIME, June 1), is the June choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club...