Word: wolfe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nazi heroes. Overzealous, the Storm Troops pressed into service an especially hook-nosed rabbi. He turned out to be a citizen of Poland, thus creating a diplomatic incident. In a night club scene, according to the Horst Wessel script, "proud Jews behave overbearingly." A greedy Jew was made to wolf a fat goose in a restaurant scene, while at the next table a lean Nazi couple divided a herring. These features of the original film caused cool heads in the Nazi hierarchy to fear that, if released throughout Germany, it would incite a nation-wide pogrom. Besides, who was young...
Died. Louis Joseph Vance, 54, fictionist (The Lone Wolf, The Brass Bowl, The Road to EnDor, The Trembling Flame, two score more), bridge player; mysteriously; in his Manhattan apartment where he lived alone. His body was found on the floor with head and shoulders, badly burned, resting on a blazing armchair. Friends said he was a constant and careless smoker, burned holes in pajamas, dressing gowns, bedcovers. An autopsy revealed that he was intoxicated when he died. Like the late Robert W. Chambers (see below), Author Vance was a onetime artist, a prodigiously prolific writer, a scorner of "literature...
Chief enemy of African game, decided the conference, is the professional trophy hunter. Traffic in trophies, which may be anything from a stuffed aard wolf to a zebra's skull, will be strictly supervised. Hunters must prove that their trophies have been legally obtained. Ivory and rhinoceros horns conveniently "found" on dead animals will belong to the government...
...Love is a strange thing indeed. He is married. He and his wife have adopted a baby. But he is frank about it. He is sincere in his love. He is infatuated. He is mad. But he is not a crook. Poor, deluded Brown--he fell for that she-wolf in sheep's clothing." TERTIUS...
...raise such a dust we are out of sight; So Old Man Wolf will never get a bite of Two too tough old hens...