Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...darkest days of the 1929 stockmarket crash, when almost every rumor was a libel, Broker Michael J. ("Mike") Meehan sauntered up to one of his partners, said cheerily: "Well, I understand I'm broke. Guess we'd better give all the boys in the office a two weeks' bonus to prove...
Presently the big automobile reached Mountain View, was coursing down a road lined with orchards when a Buick sedan belonging to Valley Electric Co. suddenly popped out of an intersection. In the resultant crash, Audrey McCann was thrown out, knocked unconscious, hospitalized for four weeks with a brain concussion, an eye injury, many a laceration. The McCanns and the Hoffmans remained friends until John McCann tried to collect damages. When the Hoffmans and their insurance company refused to pay, the McCanns sued the Hoffmans for $30,000 general damages, plus $1,237.65 special damages...
...began by copying foreign revues and built successively his follies, his shows on the roof garden of the New Amsterdam and produced the top in musical comedies like "Show Boat," and the "Three Musketeers." Ziegfeld cracked the whip over Broadways thirty dizziest years, and his death after the crash ended a great period in entertainment...
Died. Priscilla Murphy, 16, Brookline (Mass.) high-school student and aviatrix, daughter of Dr. William Parry Murphy, co-winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize for Medicine; of injuries received in an airplane crash; in Navarino...
Twenty-seven years ago a lean, gloomy Russian with a long face and convict haircut heard his Prelude in C-sharp Minor crash across the U. S. on a thousand pianos and make him famous. Long before that time Sergei Vassilievitch Rachmaninoff had been charming Europe with his brooding, regretful compositions, bewildering concertgoers with his speed and skill on the piano. But one ambition, to write a great symphony, he had not achieved. His First Symphony, in 1897, fell so flat that he needed a hypnotist to restore his nerve. His Second, in 1908, fared better, was praised...