Word: dan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dastardly decision," stormed President Dan Tracy of the A. F. of L.'s Electrical Brotherhood. "These internal matters are things in which the Board has no right to interfere," bumbled William Green. And Secretary Julius Emspak of C. I. O.'s United Electrical & Radio Workers gloated: "The only decision possible...
...accused of having bought his Senatorship, he answered blandly: "It is done all over the United States today." Discussing laborers, Sol philosophized: "I believe the wage earner is more extravagant . . . than the millionaire." As a first step in the direction of improved relations with his radical-minded miners, Dan launched a company union newspaper announcing editorially that "this is greatest era of pap, piffle and poison the world has ever seen." But solid old Meyer, who used to warn his sons that "roasted pigeons do not fly into one's mouth, easily set the record for Guggenheim picturesqueness. Sued...
...Brady, General John Sutter and an Oregon lumber tycoon named Bernard Glasgow, as swashbuckling Jim Fisk, whose financial freebooting nearly disrupted Wall Street in the decade after the Civil War. Abetted by his young cronies, Nick Boyd (Gary Grant) and Luke (Jack Oakie), Fisk amiably horn-swoggles pious little Dan Drew (Donald Meek) out of control of the Erie Railroad, then makes a fortune by selling watered Erie stock to Cornelius Vanderbilt. Pursued by the law, he uses the Ninth Regiment, of which he is the Colonel, to help him get across the Hudson to New Jersey, uses the profits...
...Daniel Long, 66 and unwell, stumbled under him. As the dirty buildings slowly swayed in his drowsy mind, his knees buckled and, panting like an asthmatic old dog, he fell in a heat stroke. Similar strokes downed hundreds throughout the nation during the last, hot fortnight. But old Dan Long's was unique. When attendants of Bellevue Hospital took his rectal temperature, routine procedure in cases of heat stroke, they found it to be 109.8° F., highest in that vast old hospital's records...
...occasionally develop a temperature of 111º F. But not even children, whose normal temperatures are higher than temperatures of normal adults, can live very long with 111º F. fever, or even with 109.8° F. To save the life of a heat victim quick measures are essential. Dan Long got them-ice packs to remove the body heat which his deranged system could not radiate; oxygen for his thickened blood; cold salty water to replace the sweat he had lost. In a few hours record-breaking Dan Long's temperature read a normal...