Word: threat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crooning Cowhand Gene Autry, top man in his calling and Hollywood's fanciest-chapped Western star, Newcomer Roy Rogers is more than a passing threat. Crooner Autry, picked three years ago from the radio and schooled in lyric foofaraw to start the singing cowboy school of Westerns, is currently holding out for more than the $5,000 a picture he has been getting from Republic Pictures. In an effort to frighten him back into the corral for the twelve pictures planned for him, Republic picked Rogers from a minor role in Autry's last film, The Old Barn...
...Boston College is sending a strong mile relay team anchored by Dick Gill. Torbert MacDonald and Sparks Sorlein of the Crimson will be strong put in the 100 yard dash to beat Larry Scanlon of Holy Cross and Ken Clapp of Brown. Zeimetz of Boston College will be a threat in the 100 and also the broad jump...
...Living Church (TIME, Jan. 24). These dignitaries, and a great many more, were accused in the Soviet press of everything from drinking champagne with nuns to plotting assassinations of Soviet officials. Last week, with at least 20 bishops in jail and one, Metropolitan Theophan of Gorki, reported executed, the threat of the crusher appeared to have "converted" at least one potential victim. Nikolas Platonoff, Metropolitan of the Living Church in Leningrad for the past four years, announced he had abandoned the church...
...Bill, I've got you a triple threat! And is he a corker! He's kind of old, but he's still got plenty of football left in him. He has played on about every semi-pre outfit around here (but he's smart enough to know how to be an amateur when the occasion demands, Bill) and he's burned up every league he's ever been in. There is the usual catch in this case, Bill, as in every other, viz, the boy's a little dumb, in fact he is awful dumb. What will we do? What...
Labor trouble caused by student "supers" at the Boston Opera House became a threat to the harmony of the Metropolitan Opera Association yesterday, when the students protested against their treatment at the performance of "La Boheme" on Tuesday night...