Word: unkindnesses
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...general council of the Congregational and Christian Churches. Shocked bigwigs of the church council, which was holding its biennial convention in Beloit, Wis., hastily apologized to Miss Keller for "the public use which has been made by Mr. Babson of the name of Miss Helen Keller in a most unkind and undignified manner...
Willie Cornelius Rogers, a former Oklahoma village schoolmaster, is pained by the unkind suggestion that multitudes of people voted for him for Congressman in 1932 under the misapprehension that he was an ex-cowboy who cracked jokes. His chief accomplishment in Washington was to shoot a hole-in-one on the Soldiers' Home golf course. He got through the 1934 and 1936 elections all right, but this year he is worried. By this time, of course, news has filtered through to the masses that the real Will Rogers was killed in an airplane crash in Alaska in 1935. What...
...Take Romance (Columbia). Tennessee's soprano, Cinemactress Grace Moore, recently braved wisecracks by showing up in Manhattan with a big, tasty Tennessee ham in her arms (TIME, Dec. 13). Though her new film invites no such unkind wisecracks, neither does it bring home any bacon...
Then they get jobs as butler and maid, signing their own references, and each enslaves in the bonds of love the members of the family of the opposite sex. All is exceedingly merry until Commissar Gorotchenko appears. He has been immoderately unkind to both of them, and they pelt him with clever invective when he interviews them in the kitchen...
...Turk is not unkind according to his lights. He thinks it cruel to drown litters of kittens, he therefore puts them on the dustheap! In every side street you meet the cats, old and emaciated cats, cats with one eye blind, kittens toddling with unsteady step, cats with skin diseases, cats eternally scratching themselves, dying cats run over by cars on the roadside. When I asked residents in Istanbul what could be done about the cats, they shrugged their shoulders. 'Istanbul was menaced in its old wooden houses by a plague of rats; cats were necessary...