Word: toe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blue Men of the Rio de Oro" and their 'Blue Sultan" are a leaden blue from head to toe. When they buy the indigo cottonades for their robes, they wet their thumbs and rub them over the cloth to make sure the dye is not fast. In the wet coastal heat they sweat the dye from the cloth to their skins. No true Blue Woman would look at a man who was not also a good deep blue. The Blue Men's rebellion flickers 200 mi. south of the main Berber rebellion around Marrakesh. Their chief capitals, fortified...
...indoor tennis championships started last week in Manhattan, several players looked good enough to win. First to fall was Jean Borotra of France. Declared the four-time winner: "I am getting too old. It looks like ping-pong next for me." George Lott, who limped with a sore toe, and Andre Merlin, French indoor titlist, went out in the quarterfinals. Frank Shields, No. 1 ranking U. S. player, and Sidney Wood, No. 6, were dropped in the semifinals...
...Liberal Club will hold a business meeting in the Lowell House Tower Room at which the policy and finances for the rest of the year will be discussed. After these matters have been disposed of, the formation of committees to make arrangements for the entertainment of the delegates or toe New England Model League of Nations is to be undertaken. About 800 members of this League will assemble here in March...
...crack Italian liner Conte di Savoia neared Naples, bearing roly-poly Comrade Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff from his triumph in Washington, the Italian Press burst with significant unanimity into a "tune" evidently called by Benito Mussolini. From the toe of the Italian boot to its strap among the Alps, Italians read that "Japanese dumping has become a new Oriental peril...
Michigan's kick-blocking ends and Halfback Herman Everhardus' toe again helped to keep Michigan on the Humpty Dumpty wall. Everhardus booted a field goal against Iowa, kicked the extra point after Bill Renner had forward-passed to a touchdown. Left End Ted Petoskey crashed through to block the kick-for-point after Iowa's touchdown...