Word: barely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When this fend is carried to the younger generation, the fun really begins. These French youngsters make the Dead End Kids look like a bunch of sissies. They guzzle wine, swear colorfully, completely befuddle their naive schoolmaster, and stage a roaring battle with their bare buttocks billowing in the breeze a clever device to keep their enemies from licking the pants off them. Besides this, they're Latins even in their diapers, and they love magnificently. For a time it seems as if a watery romance between the schoolmarm of one town and the mayor of the other is going...
...blockade of the Reich, already as tight as Great Britain and France are able to make it, is becoming still more drastic due to war in the Baltic, and, if the Balkans blaze up too in a Soviet grab at Bessarabia, German scarcity may soon be back to the bare bones of 1918. Significantly, last week, Vierjahresplan, official magazine of Reich Economic Four-Year Plan Director Hermann Wilhelm Göring, declared: "We must face the facts. They are the same as in 1914-18. England's power has brought German overseas trade to a complete standstill...
...second team, Sam White and Homer Peabody, both lettermen, are two notches above six feet and Lee Bird is one inch over the mark. Johnny Rigby drops down to five, eleven, and Bobby James is a bare five feet...
Where the low, bare limestone ridges of Sukkur, Sind slope like unkempt stairs down to the banks of the Indus, Indians who loudly object to fighting Germans in the name of Empire last week fought each other in the name of their various gods. Moslems, claiming the Manzilghaut (Government building) near the river as an ancient mosque site, besieged it, captured it, and threatened to hold it until nirvana-come. Whereupon Hindus swept the city, storming, looting, burning Moslem shops...
...other States bans and okays flew as thick as autumn leaves. By last week New Yorkers, Pennsylvanians and the citizens of Detroit, Mich, might see the picture. Ohioans, Virginians and the citizens of Chicago and Providence, R. I., emphatically might not. Reason: banning censors claimed the film was bare-faced propaganda tending to stir up national hatreds...