Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...really enjoy every minute. Why people even get up to give me a seat in streetcars and subways." On his third newsgathering day, he was sent to interview one Lillie Anderson, just arrested on her 24th intoxication charge. After giving dry advice to Drinker Anderson, Newsman Upshaw went back and wrote his story. It was headlined: BOOZE PARTIES LED LIL ASTRAY UPSHAW LEARNS. Personally, Newsman Upshaw has seen no booze parties in Manhattan. "New York is a city of great rectitude," he explained. "I'd heard so much about the wickedness of it before I came here this time...
...chat with Comrade Dovgalevsky even professed optimists doubted whether Moscow would yield now on two points which she has so long refused to concede. Still it was a great, significant event that, with small Norway's help, the two largest countries on the globe last week got back on speaking terms...
...upping, though terrifying to swans and painful to Swanmasters, is highly appreciated by Britons who live near the Thames. All last week crowds gathered by bridges and tow-paths to watch the edifying spectacle of scarlet-coated rowers in flagged and painted barges furiously chasing broods of hissing swans back and forth across the river. No useful or practical result whatsoever is achieved by nicking and classifying the swans, since afterward they simply go on swimming, breeding and hissing on the Thames...
...sticks to her in spite of his attraction to a younger woman. Peggy Wood is his wife. Stone leaves her once, then comes home, acknowledges his responsibility. Five years later he goes to Berlin again, sees Leila Hyams again, makes up his mind to be free, goes back to tell his wife what he has decided. While he is at home she dies. There are men and women, humor, sadness and struggle in this picture. It misses being a great picture only because its story is not a big enough framework for its implications and because the actors have their...
...monks and the first of a host of 5,000 seminarians from all over the world. Four abreast, chanting, bearing lighted tapers, they followed the line of march beneath Bernini's massive colonnade which encloses St. Peter's Square. This took them in serpentine procession around a huge circle, back to the basilica steps. When the column's head drew up before the church, the last seminarian had not yet emerged. High above droned a squadron of airplanes, spying on the roofs for forbidden cinema cameramen. The crowd found it almost impossible to see across the vastitude. One smart girl...