Word: strip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oddly enough this cinematic newspaper, the Globe retains a slight air of dignity absent from its recent predecessors. Even the somewhat hardened sports writers fail to strip to their undershirts and toss off innumerable hookers of whiskey as the pressure of the deadline approaches. Perhaps that is because Miss Hudson is present...
...TUBBS, new football coach at the University of Iowa, is a short, bald 49-year old native of Kentucky, who may shortly be known among Hawkeye followers as Wash Tubbs, after the stubby comic strip character of that name. Eighteen years a coach, he can best be identified nationally as the inventor of the quick-kick, as one of the first to conduct summer schools for coaches, and as the holder of lucrative patent rights to valveless, seamless footballs and basketballs and elastic ribbed football pants. All-Americans Ernie Nevers of Stanford and Pat Boland of Minnesota first took grid...
During the past few years international relations have been thought of as a great game of chess, played in well-planned manicures and for gigantic stakes. Recent events have made it a different picture. Now it is a huge game of strip poker, in which France, Great Britain, and the United States have entered wearing winter underwear, chinchilla ulsters, and heavy overshoes. Hitler and Mussolini were already shivering when they sat down at the table, and there is a question as to how much stripping they can indulge in before catching pneumonia...
...such was the New Madrid Floodway through a strip of eastern Missouri below Cairo. Another was the Eudora Floodway, in Arkansas and Louisiana, to carry floods from the neighborhood of the mouth of the Arkansas River to the mouth of the Red River. The third was the Atchafalaya Floodway from near the Red River to the Gulf, west of New Orleans, a route only half as long as the main channel of the Mississippi. Instead of being raised three feet like other levees, the "fuse plug" levees at the mouths of these floodways were left at the old level...
...Zweig's Case of Sergeant Grischa was added this week Author van der Meersch's Invasion-the first novel to show what the War was like for civilians caught behind the German lines. Invasion's scene is the district around Lille, in northern France, a narrow strip between the Belgian border and the trenches of the Western Front. In that crowded industrial area, in 1914, were three towns, a dozen villages, hundreds of thousands of people. Invasion's principal characters number more than 50, represent every type of noncombatant, every fortune of war. In 707 pages...