Word: crowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fifteen years ago in Zurich a spindly, pint-sized girl of 17 marched onto the stage of the old Schanspielhaus and solemnly pretended to be an unfolding flower, a crow hopping in the fields, a shackled slave fighting fate. The girl had no claim to beauty. Nor had she been trained as a dancer. But the audience was polite because her father was editor of the Neue Zurcher Zeitung and had indulgently hired the hall. After that Trudi Schoop would probably have remained forever unknown if she had not undertaken one day to portray a tree in a storm...
...through the heart of Atlanta drove the Presidential party amid cheers, out Peachtree Street to Piedmont Park where white school children were gathered to see him. Then the President rolled on to Atlanta University for a Jim-Crow repetition of the same ceremony with Negro school children. Of the 85,000 seats in Georgia Tech's Grant Stadium only some 50,000 were filled but crowds were gathered outside at loudspeakers, the better to hear if not to see. There the President opened the campaign of 1936. After that one excursion the President returned to Warm Springs, the game...
...James Ewing of Manhattan, dean of U. S. cancer investigators, has said: "Not more than 5% of cancer cases live more than five years." With double that percentage of survivals, Dr. Coffey saw fit to crow over the American Medical Association and the American College of Surgeons...
...three plays will be: "In the Zone, " one of a series of plays written by Eugene O'Neill around the crow of a tramp steamer; "Minnie Field," a short rural comedy by E. P. Conkle; and "A Handful of Sheep," a light Welsh folk comedy by Ronald Elwy Mitchell...
...bowl of roses to your editorial staff for their fearlessness in reporting the recent crash of a United Air Liner in Crow Creek Valley near Cheyenne [TIME, Oct. 14]. Why? Because I imagine the U. A. L. is quite a large advertising account but you may tell the executives of the United Air Line I intend to make use of their fine plane service as soon as I accumulate the necessary funds. No single crash can scare me away...