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...Kansas City, Cinemactress West's Manager James Timony was asked to comment on her current bickering with Paramount about her contract. Said he: "Lubitsch thought in his Hitler way he could push her around. ... In the end she pushed him around. . . . After all. she was in the show business before he thought of being. . . ." On his way to Europe for a honeymoon. Director Ernst Lubitsch replied as impudently as possible: "Try to push her around? . . . She's much too heavy. ... Of course she was in show business before I was. She's older than I am." Director...
...determine by round robin the best wrestlers of each group, and the grand champion. Object of sumo is not to pin an opponent's shoulders to the mat but to: 1) make him touch ground with any part of his body other than his feet, or 2) push him out of the circular 12-ft. dirt ring. Since this usually takes less than a minute and Japanese wrestling matches last all day, most of the time is devoted to ceremonies in which sumo is the richest pastime in the world...
...Hamilton, Ont., a stray cat struggled so desperately against Inspector E. G. McDonald's efforts to push it into the lethal gas chamber that the static electricity in its fur exploded the gas. The explosion blew the chamber to bits and knocked out Inspector McDonald. The cat vanished...
Wlioa-ho-ho-ho-ho-Jio. . . . I push the first valve down . . . whoa...
...Jerome D. Greene '96, Tercentenary chief, rushed to push his preparations, the University last keekend completed plans for an exdhibition of American Furniture and decorative arts, covering the period of the first 200 years of Harvard's history...