Word: cues
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taking their cue from the Premier's plea, the Executive Council made the first sacrifice, a decision not to send a Chinese exhibition to New York's 1939 World's Fair because of the "uncertainties of transportation." The supreme sacrifice was made by General Yu Han-mou, charged with the collapse of Canton's defenses, who was erroneously reported to have surrendered to the Japanese after the city's fall. According to Japanese reports, he was executed by the Chinese...
...they charged the length of the ring. Their director, Major D. A. Grant, explained that training the horses to keep time with the music was a job that took a year and a half of patient effort. Eventually, however, they learned to alter position and formation by taking their cue from the music. Musical rides are of no more military value than a Virginia reel but, ever since the Life Guards first made them popular in the British Army about 1880, many British cavalry units have taken them...
Said Manhattan's good, grey Weather Chief Dr. James H. Kimball, the man who has kept a weather eye out for all transatlantic flying since Lindbergh: "In transatlantic flying there has never been as complete weather information available as that available here today." This was the cue for American Export Air Lines' energetic, Pan American-trained Vice President James Murchie Eaton to announce a new transatlantic air partnership-American Export Air Lines and Italy's Ala Littoria. There to confirm this news was suave Colonel Carlo Pezzani, adviser to the Balbo flight five years...
...will even raise the German birth rate by encouraging German families to have four or five children to fill it. ... This very year the first section of the KdF factory, which will have an annual production of 450,000 cars, will have a roof over its head!" Taking his cue from the KdF car, radiorating Minister for Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels announced last week that on Sept...
...back wall, one organ pipe, height circa 40 ft., the biggest pipe that could be carted through traffic and in the stage door. Its purpose was kept a mystery. Wood's idea was that the lowest of all notes, subaudible, but vibrating the eardrum, would produce, on cue, a sensation indefinable but eerie...