Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brooklyn, Patrolman Thomas Erwin strolled down Fifth Avenue at midnight, saw two men shin up an elevated pillar, climb to the roof of a delicatessen store. Following, Sleuth Erwin found the two removing panes of glass from the roof's skylight, arrested one, missed the other. In court, Climber Luciani Perlizzi, 21, explained that he had a girl, that she was bringing a "blind date" (unknown girl) for his companion, that his companion insisted on seeing her first...
...other Pope has done since 1870. In June there will be six or seven canonization and beatification ceremonies. On the Feast of Corpus Christi in June, the Pope may visit Rome for the first time in his eleven-year pontificate. Or he may go to Rome later, climb on his knees the famed Scala Santa (Holy Stairs) which are said to be the very ones Christ ascended in Pontius Pilate's palace. That Pius XI plans to leave Vatican City has been denied, but he keeps his own counsel, is fond of springing surprises...
...Japanese. Actually last week Jehol fell March 4. The relay race had been won in eleven days by Japanese brigades which advanced further than from Portland. Me. to Manhattan, sprinting more than 50 mi. on each of the last three days-about as fast as any modern army can climb mountain passes in the teeth of blizzards. Day before Jehol fell, her Governor, famed War Lord Tang Yulin who received correspondents fortnight ago confidently seated on an antique Manchu Throne, seemed to be in a befuddled stupor-possibly from opium which, as Jehol's chief crop, is supposed...
Potato-nosed Jimmy Durante, the living composite of Manhattan cab drivers, did not have to work hard for his laughs. Covered with characteristic confusion, Funnyman Durante finds himself trying to climb over the orchestra pit to assert his identity when an impostor is introduced on stage in the second scene. He appears to be, as usual, utterly unable to control his feelings. He shakes his parrotlike head, hurls his hat at the band, indulges his ignorant fondness for British idioms, tells the old one about the floorwalker who thought he was about to be kicked by the dog, sings snatches...
Missionary Jones is sure it is not Christianity v. Buddhism or Confucianism. "These faiths are simply out of it. Climb to the top of China's sacred mountain, Taishan, and you will find the Buddhist and Taoist priests smoking opium or gambling." General Chiang Kai-shek told Dr. Jones the final battle in China would be between Christianity and Communism- "and not only in China but throughout the world." Whether Christianity as preached in China has enough social content to beat Communism remains to be seen. Certainly it is less imperialistic than before. General Feng Yu-hsiang wavered...