Word: thrashes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Cinemactress Sigrid Gurie, Flatbush, Brooklyn, N. Y.'s "Norwegian Garbo"; from Thomas W. Stewart; in Los Angeles, Calif. Grounds: "My husband slapped me, threatened to thrash me, and said he would lock me out of the house...
...haired secretary, Evelyn Dill. When Mr. Norton reported to Headmaster Cutler that he had seen the pair kissing and embracing, the headmaster had attempted to straighten things out by holding a "harmony" prayer meeting in his office. At the time, Dr. Cutler painfully recalled, Dean Elder had wanted to thrash Cashier Norton as a "peeping Tom," Last week Defendant Elder told the court that Accuser Norton haa always been a "Jekyll and Hyde character," prone to bursts of hysterical repentance. Accuser Norton, asked whether he bore "enmity" toward the defendant, answered reflectively: "I don't like that word...
Sergeants-at-arms in the Chamber of Deputies had to keep separating members who loudly threatened to thrash each other. On three occasions the Speaker, portly M. Edouard Herriot, was unable to get order by ringing his bell, had to suspend the session by the classic French gesture of clapping on his silk hat and waddling out. Twenty Communist Deputies rushed in a fist-shaking, hoarse-shouting phalanx toward the centre of the Chamber, and only concerted efforts by all the sergeants-at-arms checked their assault. In the Senate it was the duty of former Premier Blum, since...
Because the world's heavyweight boxing champion is supposed to be able to thrash any unarmed human, fights between big men often attract huge crowds which know nothing about prizefighting. Bouts between lightweights (135 Ib.) appeal chiefly to connoisseurs of fighting. Last week, two lightweights, neither of whom had any claim to the championship of the class, fought 15 rounds in New York's Madison Square Garden. When they finished, the most sophisticated fight crowd of the season agreed that, judged according to the bloody esthetics of pugilism, the affair deserved a niche among ring classics...
...Premier." Simultaneously in Japanese political circles the more or less gagged Parliament was reported so restive at the risks the Cabinet is running with its pro-German and pro-Italian pacts (TIME. Dec. 7) and its seizure of Tsingtao, that Japan's dominant militarists were about ready to thrash "those Parliamentary cowards" by having Parlia ment dissolved...