Word: cues
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago he gave a lecture on art in London, stomped down the aisle to the dais wearing a deep-sea diving suit, a jeweled dagger at his belt (carrying a billiard cue in one hand and leading a pair of Russian wolfhounds with the other). Nearly overcome by heat before the helmet could be unscrewed, he explained: "I just wanted to show that I was plunging deeply into the human mind...
...fast, if it be only from one improbability to the next. A true romantic hero in all respects but this, Aaron Kane suffers from a lack of buoyancy, lands in one romantic situation after another but remains in it, paralyzed and pensive, like an actor who has missed his cue...
...office to discuss mortgages and real estate appraisals. As they were leaving, Franklin Roosevelt jocularly warned them that newshawks would be waiting to ask them about Republican Vice Presidential Nominee Frank Knox's declaration that no insurance policy is safe today (TIME, Sept. 21). Taking the cue, they announced as they emerged that life insurance company assets were up $3,000,000,000 since 1933, called attention to the fact that FCA, HOLC and RFC had bailed insurance" companies out of some $523,000,000 of troublesome assets, declared U. S. life insurance policies "the safest of all possible...
Taking the cue from this fast-publicized action, many another commuter tried the same procedure. Some succeeded; some were thrown off. At ticket offices all along the line irate commuters insisted on getting receipts for their money, talked darkly of demanding rebates later. On the third day of the revolt the Transit Commission got a temporary injunction restraining the Long Island from charging more than 2? a mile within the City of New York. Basis of the injunction was the State Railroad Law, which prohibits a road from charging more per mile than its parent company in cities...
...misses were rare. Death Valley Scotty, broncobuster, was such a glutton for chocolate creams that he ate them while his mount was cutting capers. Buffalo Bill stuck religiously to his temperance pledge except in his native State of Nebraska: there all bets were off, and the show, taking its cue from him, went really wild. Cody and his equally temperamental manager, "Arizona John" Burke, sometimes had differences. Cody once wired him: IF YOU WANT TO REMAIN WITH THIS SHOW YOU MUST OBEY MY ORDERS. To which Burke replied collect: WHO THE HELL EVER TOLD YOU I WANTED TO REMAIN WITH...