Word: squats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diabolical villains arising from the Victorian period that produced "Frankensten" and "The Murder in the Red Barn", few had more homely appeal than the demon barber of Fleet Street. His remarkable mechanical chair disposed of its occupants as decisively as Sing Sing's "hot squat". Such is the atmosphere of the Delta Upsilon's present revival...
...citizens who have not thought much about dachshunds since War days were startled to read that Lenz-Assmannsheim cost $1,500. In 1918 most people in the U. S. would not have taken a dachshund as a gift. Grotesquely squat and sausage-like, the dog made an apt symbol for propagandizing cartoonists. Furtively clinging to its pets, the Dachshund Club changed its name to "The Badger Dog Club...
...Carnegie Hall, last week drew a crowd unaccustomed to entering Manhattan's most formal music house. Theatre folk, songwriters and newspapermen flocked to hear tabloid Paul Whiteman (126 Ib. thinner than he used to be) play Tabloid. It had been written for him by his oldtime orchestrator, squat, baldish Ferde Grofé who now runs the Grofé Realty Co. in Teaneck...
Debts, The convention enthusiastically applauded Pennsylvania's squat Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis, longtime Secretary of Labor now awaiting retrial for his part in a Moose national lottery, when he said that the debtor nations "could in a short time pay their debts without any discomfort to them" if they disarmed. But the convention leaned toward "readjustment...
...contradictory cables from Allahabad and Delhi raised once more the issue of competence. Who is competent to speak for India? Mr. Ganhdi continued to squat in Yerovda Jail last week, "during His Majesty's pleasure." At the Conference in London sat no representative of Mr. Gandhi's Indian Nationalist Party and not even a Prince or Maharaja of importance. True, the Aga Khan was there but he is the merest British puppet and the head of no Indian state. The Labor Party of Great Britain declined, some weeks ago. to sit in at the Conference because the present...