Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corriere Padano of Ferrara, a minor Fascist organ, founded by Air Marshal Italo Balbo, Governor of Libya, took the crack at Bolshevism for which all Italians were itching: "We are born antiCommunists, and we intend to remain so. We have not an ounce of sympathy for the Bolsheviks, who are tragic buffoons, professional tricksters, models of vulgar bestiality, living monsters serving the most insane and infamous enterprise of subjugation, cruelty and human degredation which universal history can recall...
...famed one-sheet poster newspaper of the Fascist Party, is pasted up weekly on walls all over Italy, claims 30,000,000 readers. In copies reaching the U. S. last week, News From Rome exhorted: "Don't whimper if you lack coffee. Be thankful that the Duce took steps in time to provide enough grain-for all. . . . Don't get the idea of hoarding anything at home, especially food. . . . Leave in the banks any money you have deposited. . . . Leave news from foreign sources alone. . . . Politics is not your business. Let Him-at Rome-who is responsible for everything...
...used commercial planes to develop military design; laid out airfields planted in alfalfa, made hangars like barns, dressed greaseballs like hayseeds. Thousands of young Germans joined Deutsche Lujtsport Verband (German Air Sports Society) and proceeded to fly their sports planes up & down Germany in tight military formations. Meanwhile civilians took to gliding and soaring...
...this nostalgic peep backward by Hollywood at its age of innocence, 20th Century-Fox studios appropriated $2,000,000, took more than three months for shooting, built 80 sets (average for a feature is 40), replaced the 1913 custard pie with a new-style, squshier, stickier, whipped-cream pie, summoned oldtime Pie-slinger Buster Keaton to hurl 56 of them; called in Mack Sennett, Chester Conklin, Jed Prouty, many another old-timer to impersonate themselves, resurrected Keystone Cops* and Bathing Beauties, the bewitchingly crossed eyes of Bartender Ben Turpin. Many a fan sat twice through the heartthrob antics...
...three-quarters of an hour of weather, livestock & feed prices, good humor, a singing cowboy and a guitar-twanging cowgirl with Bar X names (Claude Redman, Esther Gibson), plenty of come-ons for the Greeley Cash Auction Market. He put his auction pit on the air twice a week, took microphones out on the range for farm sales, saw to it that the folks who turned out were not only entertained but fed ("Free Barbecue at 12 o'clock. Bring your own cups"). He offered to sell anything, from a manure-spreader to a mountainside...