Word: turning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horse & rider that had stuck together. When the results were posted, the horses with railbirds up took second and third money. No New Zealander raised an eyebrow. For it is a common occurrence Down Under-just as it was a common occurrence in the U. S. up to the turn of the Century. Only stipulation: the railbird must not weigh less than the original jockey...
Bing Crosby (The Lion and Sa Gomes Rhythm Boys; Decca). Having celebrated Franklin Roosevelt, the Duke of Windsor and the late Graf Zeppelin, Trinidad's Calypso singers turn to a famed U. S. colleague. Professional appraisal...
...Turn the Ice-Worm Wiggle loose! Glaciers gleam with misty dews. Thrilling ice-worms lurk for you Where Alaskan icebergs cruise. "Akh-tu-wu-ye-keh" to you! Let's mush on to a sourdough stew! . . . Mr. Lopez proposes, at the Claridge Hotel in Memphis this month, to popularize the Wiggle, a shuffling, hopping dance which ends with everyone pointing in the air, shouting...
...moving his residence more than a mile and a half. An Episcopalian, he calls himself a circuit rider. First with a buggy, then with a Model T Ford, now with a big, seven-passenger Nash, he has cared for an area 100 miles square. Three churches claim him in turn every Sunday, one of them giving him hot coffee to go with his picnic lunch: Emmanuel in Killingworth, Epiphany in Durham, St. James in Haddam...
...Pastor Niemoller began his third year in the Reich's custody. He was reported in good health but morose, convinced he would not be free before the collapse of Naziism. The Government, which has offered him release on condition that he refrain from preaching, gave the screw a turn by threatening to evict Niemoller's wife and seven children from his old rectory. Two thousand members of the Dahlem congregation approved a protest declaring: "This is not . . . Christian. . . . We consider Pastor Niemoller, though he may be imprisoned, as our rightfully chosen minister...