Word: twisting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Burt is concentrating on developing his flat strokes while Gilkey has been experimenting with a twist service in pre-season practice sessions...
...state turned authoritarian is to get itself democratically approved. Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin have all "gone to the polls," and those dictators at least retained the form of a secret, written ballot. Last week Europe's newest dictator, Carol von Hohenzollorn, "royal dictator" of Rumania, supplied the newest twist to the technique. He sent his 4,000,000-odd voters to the polls to register orally their support of his three-week-old regime. Names of those voting against the Government were recorded by election managers. When the tabulations were in, only 5,413 had dared...
...National Socialist Writings. This new Bureau now edits and distributes all of the Führer's addresses. Before the Bureau was created editors were left to their own devices in straightening out Hitler's tortured utterances. They frequently failed and sometimes inadvertently produced a malicious twist to the Führer's statements. As an example of the dire need for expert editing for Adolf Hitler it was officially explained that before the Bureau began its work "80% of the quotations attributed to Hitler were misquotations...
Married. John Leslie ("Jackie") Coogan, 23, who earned fame & fortune at the age of four by appearing with Charles Spencer Chaplin in The Kid (later in Peck's Bad Boy, Oliver Twist, Little Robinson Crusoe) ; to Betty Grable, 20, famed rather for her long-standing (three year) engagement to Coogan than for her cinema roles (Old Man Rhythm, Follow the Fleet); during a recess in the production of College Swing (in which Miss Grable is the lead and Coogan acts a bit part); in Los Angeles...
...make more digestible some of the dining hall meals. Dr. Bock and his associates are in full accord with keeping their undergraduate charges happy by jokes or any other decent means, for happiness and health go hand in hand. But so called humor with a cruel or perverted twist cannot be tolerated here, and the Department is justified in taking every possible step to apprehend the guilty parties and to punish them severly. In short, funny ha-ha is welcome, necessary; funny peculiar is taboo...