Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the start of the second period, Harvard, again stepped into the lead, but Yale tied it up in short order, and stepped out ahead, to lead until the final whistle. Fletcher was high scorer for Harvard; for Yale Klein starred...
...began to hammer. The greater part of the Senate despises Huey Long. But Senator Norris also despises Postmaster General Farley with the fervor of a man who hates patronage; Senators Cutting, La Follette and other liberals despise Mr. Farley because in the last election he put the Democratic Party ahead of liberalism; most Republican regulars despise Mr. Farley as a matter of policy. Mr. Long was shrewd enough to pick Mr. Farley as his target, thereby gaining a maximum number of allies...
...succession of roles as dissimilar as possible, in order to find out in which category she fits best. Having "discovered" pretty Josephine Hutchinson in Manhattan's Civic Repertory Theatre, where she had been functioning for eight years, Warner's first experiment was a musical comedy (Happiness Ahead), in which her by no means untaxing assignment was to spend six reels listening to Dick Powell sing. With this out of the way, a good solid English sex-problem piece, with mullioned windows and C. Aubrey Smith as a friend of the family, was obviously in order. This line...
...nurse, who has to convey to the audience her jealous love for him and her stoic hatred of his wife in a role almost devoid of lines, Peggy Wood gives the outstanding performance. As the wife, Josephine Hutchinson seems more wisely cast than she was in Happiness Ahead. Her next picture will be Oil for the Lamps of China...
Last May Publisher Agnelli opened La Stampa's new 19,000,000-lire ($1,600,000) building, a model plant with the latest presses, telephoto receiving apparatus and even television rooms. Last month he plunged far ahead of his competitors with a venture unheard of in the U. S. He supplied each of La Stampa's foreign bureaus with portable wireless sets to flash photographs to the Turin plant...