Word: tars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...avoid photographers. Babe Ruth sat in the Press box with a white carnation in his buttonhole. In Detroit, Matthew Golden, of Old Saybrook, Conn., proudly announced that he was 72 and had not missed a game since 1903. In Chicago, one George Alms slept on the sidewalk in a tar-paper bag to keep his place at the head of a ticket line. It was the "World Series," between the Chicago Cubs and the Detroit Tigers, for the professional baseball championship of the U. S. Before it was over it had set three records for events of its kind...
...bigwigs in Soviet America of tomorrow TIME gladly presents onetime Newsstand Buyer Edwards. Since July cargoes of Soviet wheat from Sebastopol, coal and coal tar from Nicolaiev, and oil from Batum have been regularly arriving at Massaua and Mogadishu, Italian war bases in Africa. Much Soviet oil is also being sold to Italy direct, as Communists paradoxically fuel the Fascist fleet...
Iowa last week had cause to review its official policy of not giving birth control advice to families on Relief. Seven years ago John Slattery, 64-year-old teamster, met a 17-year-old girl in the slums of Omaha. They went to Kansas, got married, moved into a tar-paper shack in Council Bluffs. There they produced three daughters, who were placed on arrival in the city orphanage. Month ago, Mrs. Slattery, robust but not brilliant, bore twin daughters. Her jobless husband, now 71, announced himself still fit for a day's work, claimed he was looking...
...draws most of its members from Browning's Valley, Mo. Best known is Wrestler Jim ("Wrigglin' ") Browning who defeated "Strangler" Lewis in 1933. Famed as much for their nicknames as for their physical strength, Ozark members of the U. B. F. are known to friends and relatives as: Tar Pole, Buck Foot, Dough Belly, Goofy, Little Creamy, Big Bugs, Hard Head, Red Wing, Kraut, Fuzzy, Biscuits, Ivan Tomcat. "Joe Chickie'' Browning is now a bank president, "Half Wit" Browning, a Harvard graduate...
Since Lotte Feingraeber is Polish, she ducked down a side street, eluded German frontier guards, slipped into Poland. Clawing at her tar-covered skin, she was placed in a hospital at Churcuv "suffering from nervous breakdown." Aroused, the Swiss President of the Upper Silesian Mixed Commission for Protection of National Minorities, M. Felix Calender, demanded without result last week that the German Government punish the Storm Troopers who tarred Lotte Feingraeber. The tar having been peeled off her and soothing lotions applied, she said with returning composure: "I shall demand 50,000 marks [$20,000] from the German authorities...