Word: touts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...punished, irrespective of whether the bullets strike the guilty or the innocent!" Fearful that some kind of European alliance to attack the Reich may now be forming, Vice Leader Hess began to switch his talk from German to French. "Malheur pour nous! Malheur pour vous! Et malheur pour tout le monde!" puzzled Germans heard him shout. "An evil day for us! For you! And for all the world...
...Stepin Fetchit, who is too lazy to use words. Born Lincoln Perry in Key West, Fla., in 1902, Stepin Fetchit went to divinity school. When after two years he learned that it would take two more to finish the course, he resigned. Discharged for incompetence as a racetrack tout, he adopted the name of his favorite horse (Step and Fetch It) and decided to try acting...
...vois autour de moi cette auguste assemblée qui parait si vaste mais qui représente une conception infiniment plus vaste-d'espoir et les voeux du monde entier. . . . Messieurs les délégués, je vous tend la main et de tout man coeur j'espère que vos efforts aboutiront à un heureux résultat yu'attendent avec impatience les peuples du monde...
...There are no good turf courts in France. The courts at Roland Garros Stadium, designed by Charles Bouhana, are of red clay much like En-Tout-Cas ("all weather") courts which are made in the U. S. and elsewhere by En-Tout-Cas Co. Tennis ball specifications for size, weight, thickness of cover are the same all over the world; but because most European players prefer a slower bounce, Dunlap Co., which makes most tennis balls abroad, uses a rubber composition that gives a less lively bounce than the composition used by U. S. manufacturers. European tennis balls last...
...great game called "Understanding America." Drawings by Peter Arno, Otto Soglow, other New Yorker artists; photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, Anton Bruehl; paintings by George Bellows, Charles Sheeler, Georgia O'Keefe, Morris Kantor, Charles Burchfield et al. are intermingled with sculptural figures, early American paintings to make a vivid tout ensemble...