Word: snarl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...holiday. That night an old friend, the Lord Chief Justice of England, Baron Hewart, called and as a precaution ordered two hot water bottles and personally tucked the Hanging Judge into bed. Sometime during the night he rolled off onto the floor, was found next morning entangled in a snarl of sheets and blankets, dead of heart failure and pernicious anemia...
...acidities of Edna May Oliver. The plot: Robert Montgomery, non-marrying lady-killer, is talked into marrying Joan Crawford. Because he cannot stop lady-killing, Joan piously makes him an apparent cuckold in public. This reforms him and, in what passes for high breeding in Hollywood, these two snarl, mutter, sneer, whine, shout their love at one another...
...Society accepted Dr. Truesdale's apology. "Dr. Truesdale," the Committee acknowledged, "realized the obligation to preserve a decent professional reserve and at the same time avoid alienating the Press, whose good offices our profession has had many occasions to acknowledge with gratitude." But the Committee found cause to snarl because "a quasi-official endorsement of the publicity was offered by the assignment of the New York Academy of Medicine of its press liaison officer to report the operation for the Associated Press." That special reporter for the A. P. was tousle-headed Dr. lago Galdston (born Israel Goldstein...
...Corp. was not the first motor casualty of Depression but it was by far the biggest. The venerable South Bend, Ind. concern which Clem and Harry Studebaker founded as a wagon works in 1852, was brought low not by the usual affliction of reduced sales, but by a legal snarl over a mid-Depression effort to expand. In 1932 Studebaker purchased White Motor Co. (trucks) only to have the deal blocked by minority White stockholders. Upshot was a receivership. Last week it looked as if Studebaker would be both the first motor maker to shuffle off its financial troubles...
Studebaker's position is complicated by a receivership growing out of a legal snarl in its attempt to acquire White Motor (trucks). Reorganization plans are nearly complete. Meanwhile, the company has gained ground under the three able receivers, Harold S. Vance, Paul Gray Hoffman and Ashton G. Bean. When once again her own mistress, Studebaker could listen to honorable proposals...