Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Father Charles Owen Rice, did something he had long wanted to do. With the blessing of his bishop, he gave up the modest but secure post of an assistant pastor-$33 a month, plus room & board-and became priest of a flophouse, his salary to be whatever he could scare...
...streamlined blood-and-thunder to supplement the drawing-room, farce of "Remember?" There is also an edition of "Information Please," adapted from the air waves. Curiously enough, it isn't as good on celluloid. Canada Dry's experts might better have been cast in some Boris Karloff picture to scare the kiddies...
...Kyosti Kallio once more offered to negotiate "an honorable peace." This was no more than Finland had been offering since the war began,* but it proved to the Finns who are getting hurt in this war that their Government is always willing to negotiate. And Minister Holma's scare talk was less a cry of desperation than a part of the Finnish campaign to speed up the flow of aid which is already more than a trickle...
Hollywood-hardened children, who like their fantasy lavish and solid, may enjoy the elaborate Technicolored sets (cost: $200,000). They may even take in their stride the skulls, owls, ravens, blazing lightning, flaming forest and crashing trees the producers have got together to scare the daylights out of them. They can scarcely fail to enjoy Shirley Temple's artful childishness or chubby, kinky-haired Johnny Russell as her little brother, Tyltyl...
Next day the bombers came back and altogether southern Finland got three raids in a week. Helsinki's citizens, who do not scare easily, amused themselves during one alarm by potting one another with snowballs. During another they watched a Finnish anti-aircraft battery pot one of the visiting bombers. Cabled New York Times Correspondent Harold Denny: "We.saw a flash of fire in the sky, blotted out immediately by a mushrooming blob of black smoke, and then scraps of debris began falling. A moment later we heard a roar...