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...Lord Jeffs will dress 54 men for Saturday's tussle with two full teams arriving Friday afternoon to work out in the stadium. Bob Blood, the Tom Thumb Harmon of the East, who weighs only 165 pounds, should stand out for the visitors...
...wonder how many of my acquaintances have written to you after reading that how to thumb a ride is "a trick unknown to Europe" (TIME, Sept...
...huge, florid face and baldish head were streaked with blood because he had cut his hand on a broken glass and then wiped the blood over his face and into his hair." There is a timely last chapter on the Reichswehr generals. Though more & more under the Nazi thumb, they are still the most independent group in the Third Reich. For by winning or losing the war, it is still the generals who will finally decide the fate of their goose-stepping Caesars and most of mankind...
...though it proves a financial success, it will only stay for two weeks, to make way for Bert Lytell and Mady Christians in "Return Engagement." Boston has at last become a producing center. From last night's start, Horace Schmidlapp and Joseph M. Gaites may soon be able to thumb noses at Broadway...
...brown shirt and blue shorts) and put on a sack suit he had taken with him to Canada. He found Canada was a more delightful place than he had dreamed. A gasoline station gave him a map. A friendly fellow taught him a trick unknown in Europe, how to thumb a ride. Obliging motorists gave him lifts to Toronto and on to Montreal. Kindly people gave him food, tobacco, even money, but there was one thing no one thought of giving him. When he tried to cross the Victoria Bridge at Montreal he was asked for it: a registration card...