Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announcement by L.E. Waterman Co. (pens,ink) of an autograph-collecting contest for children under 16, loosed a horde of some 150,000 begging, demanding, wangling U.S. youngsters on the world's celebrities. Last week in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel five judges (one a forgery expert) chose from the more than 1,000,000 signatures submitted, awarded prizes. First prize of $1,000 went to Thomas Leonard of Lincoln, Neb. Edward of Wales signed once, for a Michigan girl, added "Hope you win the prize" (she did not), then besought Waterman's London branch to stem...
...Congress: Because they liked him personally, Republican Senators in 1929 chose him as their floor leader when Charles Curtis vacated that difficult job for the easier vice presidency. But he led only a nominal party majority which insurgent bolters repeatedly turned into a voting minority. Officially the President's spokesman in the Senate, he has eaten many a breakfast at the White House but rarely rises to defend Herbert Hoover from partisan attack. Privately criticized for failing to back up his chief, he was once reported to have snorted: ''How can you stand behind a man with...
...jail one early morning last week, alighted from their delivery truck. Skillfully they slugged the night jailer, then the day jailer, then the day jailer's visiting friend, locked them up with tire tape on their eyes and mouths. Then the raiders looked about for loot. First they chose the things they liked best, several bottles of confiscated liquor. Next they chose the things which they needed most: 8500 from the safe, rifles, pistols, a machine-gun, 500 rounds of ammunition. Then they chose the things which would be most helpful to them in business: 20 seized slot machines...
...Publicly to against expound himself and last week denounce the "plot"against himself last week Josef Stalin chose his Right-Hand-Man-Of-The-Moment, Comrade Lazar Kaganovitch. Ingenious, this henchman found the perfect metaphor with which to explain away major breaks in the Five-Year Plan and heap all praise upon Dictator Stalin. Keynoted Comrade Kaganovitch: ". . . Why wail over broken eggs when we are trying to make an omelette...
...their seasons last week when simultaneously in Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Detroit four batons began cutting the air. Elderly, thickset Frederick Stock held the stick for Chicago, stalwart, British Eugene Goossens for Cincinnati, brisk Nikolai Sokoloff for Cleveland, quiet, slow-moving Ossip Gabrilowitsch for Detroit. The Midwestern conductors chose safe & sane courses last week, free from hazardous, modernistic hurdles...