Word: skins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Across the border, Polish Jokesmiths joined the fun. A story circulated about one Wieslaw Hawrylowicz who escaped from Russia disguised as a cow. "Would you believe it! He sewed himself up in a real cow's skin and hobbled over the frontier on all fours in full view of Red guards so dumb they never knew the difference...
...Wardensville, W. Va., Wilbur H. Long said to his children: "Now I'll show you how to skin the cat." He climbed a tree, "skinned the cat," lost his grip, fell on his head, died...
...playing, it is only natural that a better estimate can be made of their strength. But at the moment Harvard, with its preponderance of backfield material and its splendid A team line, looks like the best bet of the six teams to come through the season with a whole skin. Coach Casey in his second year with the Varsity has the advantage of not having to worry over what men he should put in the first team, but rather which players are most worthwhile being developed into reserve strength. BY TIME...
...started homeward last November. At one time they "had only one oogiuk [sea lion] skin for ourselves and the dogs for two days. But the main trouble was water. If we hadn't let our beards grow, we would have been dead men. That is the way we got water-just sucked the icicles we broke off our beards. I learned that trick from an Eskimo on Banks Island...
...justify the ways of Heroine Sadie Thompson to Man. Director Lewis Milestone has made semi-respectable, unexciting, the old sure-fire melodrama. Of the hot Pacific island where the rain monotonously rains and the characters get crescendo jitters, Milestone gets no illusion. The characters are not damp to the skin. Their clothes do not stick clammily to their flanks. The food does not spoil. Green mold does not sprout on everything. The heat is not heat at all. Faces are unsweated. Appetites are healthv. The weather does not. as in the play, exhaust the characters of energy, ravel out their...