Word: squatness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seven-year-old Scophony is the lusty baby of British television. Guided by squat, bespectacled Russian-refugee Sagall, it weathered five years of bailiff dodging, grew from a room and a half in Soho to $1,050,000 capitalization, achieved financial association with Odeon. Competitor in large-screen television is Baird Television Ltd. partly owned by Gaumont-British Picture Corp., Ltd. They report several orders for theatre television screens, do not specify which theatres, might offer BBC loans of Gaumont-British stars in exchange for programs...
Defense Attorney Dawson complained of cramp. He asked Judge Ford to transfer the trial to a larger courtroom at Lexington, where the defendants would not have to squat behind the jury box. Agitated, Mr. Dawson pointed out that the jurors could not view his clients, among whom were such prominent Harlan citizens as Coal Operators Robert W. Creech, Elmer Hall, Bryan Whitfield. At this time, Mr. Dawson did not mention that his clients also included such characters as ex-Deputy Frank White, who, at the La Follette hearings, was accused of trying to murder ex-Deputy (and codefendant) Hugh Taylor...
Most picturesque exhibit is a full-scale Highland clachan squat in the middle of the fair's modernistic, pastel-shaded buildings. Like a Rob Roy setting, complete with the chief's castle, a smithy, an old fashioned inn, a bubbling burn and a 1150-ft. loch, the little village is peopled with tartan-clad Highlanders who obligingly raise a "hooech" and a skirl on the pipes for the wide-eyed visitors...
Last week, dramatically affirming that the Plan still "represents my highest ideals," Strongman Batista suddenly announced that further legislation on it would be "suspended" until after the Presidential elections early next year. Reason for this unexpected move: squat, peasant-born Batista.has engineered the seating of five men in the Presidential chair and now hankers to fill the position himself. The Plan, criticized by a good many Cubans as an attempt to regiment all phases of their national life, is regarded by Boss Batista as too much of a controversial issue to push at the time of an election...
...mountain climbing made his African years memorable. First was the great, squat, "pudding-like" dome of Kilimanjaro, 19,710 feet, in Tanganyika, the highest mountain in Africa. Since the Germans built huts on it during the War, at 8,500 feet and at 11,500 feet, Author Tilman says cavalierly that Kilimanjaro offers ''no climbing difficulties whatsoever." The great jagged tower of Mount Kenya, 17.040 feet, buttressed with ridges and festooned with hanging glaciers, was a far tougher job. On the peak experienced climbers had violent attacks of vomiting, and on the descent Tilman fell 80 feet...