Word: americanize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...atmosphere is one of the most powerful influences on child character. "Moving pictures do not contribute to delinquency," said Philadelphia's Phyllis Blanchard. "I have sat in motion picture theatres and marveled. . . . When the villain is caught, as is always the case under the policy of those who make American motion pictures, the applause of the children is swiftest and most enthusiastic...
...steady, vigorous beat he last week directed his Milwaukee debut. Featured were Tenor Edward Johnson, Soprano Yvonne Gall and Baritone William Phillips in excerpts from Faust. The rest was straight fare?Wagner's Rienzi Overture, Liszt's Les Preludes, Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony; also there was George Gershwin's American in Paris whose absurdities caused the usual giggles. Suggested Critic Richand S. Davis of the Milwaukee Journal: "He should now construct A Frenchman in Chicago, which ought to be an even more impish diversion...
...names of the Americans are important. Paul Weeks Litchfield is chief of the U. S. lighter-than-air ship industry. He began with Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. in 1900 as a factory superintendent and built Goodyear's first tire with his own hands. Before the War he persuaded Goodyear's Founder-President Frank A. Seiberling to build spherical balloons for the U. S. air services. Before, during and since the War, Mr. Litchfield built sausage balloons and nonrigid dirigibles (blimps; for the Army and Navy. In 1924 he and Edward G. Wilmer, Mr. Seiberling's successor as Goodyear president, were...
...plus ex- press, Zeppelins can be made to pay handsomely he thinks. He tightened his tie, which slips loose on his thick neck, looked at his Manhattan timepiece (he carries three watches, showing Friedrichshafen. Greenwich and New York time), arched his mephistophelian brows, and hastened to the first Hamburg-American liner available for Hamburg. A Hamburg-American it had to be, for that company aided Graf Zeppelin in her world flight. The first boat was the slow New York, which takes ten days for the crossing. As the indom- itable, tired oldster (he is 61) boarded her, his grey pants...
...lost fish. Thousands lined the shore to watch the stanch, full-rigged craft course twice around an 18-mile triangle into the harbor. In the first two races, gentle inshore winds were insufficient to drive the schooners to the finish within the time limit. In the third, little Portuguese-American Progress gradually overcame Capt. Ben Pine's big Arthur D. Story until on the last lap, tacking along inshore close to the Cape Ann rocks, it skirmished into the lead to win. The losers, unwilling to give up another day's fishing, conceded to Capt. Manuel Domingos...