Word: comeback
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neatest Davey comeback was his declaration : "I know absolutely nothing about the financial affairs of the Democratic State Committee. . . . My lack of knowledge in matters of this kind is exactly the same as the President's lack of knowledge of how Mr. Farley raised the money to make up the deficit in the financial affairs of the National Committee...
...bald, acquisitive William Fox was the grand panjandrum of filmland. Next year he was ousted from control of his companies by a coalition of creditors. With $21,000,000 in cold cash and a five-year pension of $500,000 annually, he was well able to finance a comeback if he could find something to come back with. He thought he had it in patents, bought abroad and transferred to his personal holding company, covering the "double print" method of recording both sound and picture on a single film and the "sprocket" or "flywheel" method of reproduction, which were universally...
...newcomer to that small group of U. S. athletes for whom a stop watch is as conventional an accessory for public bathing as a pair of trunks, Flanagan last week was making what sportswriters call a "comeback'' at an age when many of his contemporaries are barely learning how-to swim. Son of a retired Miami butcher, Ralph Flanagan was discovered in 1926 at a newsboys' party, by Swimming Coach Steve Forsyth, who developed Katherine Rawls. By 1931, he had broken his first national record (1,650 yd. free style). He was on the Olympic team...
...wiles of Gloria Swanson. Instead of Broadway, the scene is Bavaria and instead of jazz the music is a sort of operetta through which continuously looms the grave, of fended shade of Victor Herbert. Music in the Air is principally important for providing Miss Swanson, 36, with her current comeback vehicle. She seems very well preserved and sings through her teeth in a sprightly way. Aside from her triangular mouth and a song called "I've Told Every Little Star," the mainstay of the action is June Lang, a blonde who has spent several years on the Fox lot, having...
...doubted whether the Democratic Party could ever be revived. The Madison Square Garden convention ("Twenty-four votes for Underwood") was only a prelude to the disaster that overtook Nominee John William Davis in the 1924 election. The Party's very makeup seemed to preclude the possibility of a comeback. In the South it was the party of the established order. In the North and West it was the party of a few political idealists and of strong but disreputable city machines built around the Irish Catholic and foreign-born slum vote. In the South it was the party...