Word: dart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seats were filled, and the Yardlings filled the aisles, main doorway, and main stairway. Some particularly enthusiastic members of the class engaged in dart throwing from the front, while others crowded up the back stairway and attacked the speakers from the rear...
...unfamiliar to most of the 1,500,000 inhabitants of Hankow and environs are air raids, but those Orientals and whites who did not run to air-raid shelters soon learned that this one was different. Out of cloud banks north of Hankow began to dart fast pursuit planes unlike those guarding the big Japanese bombers. They dived, attacked the invaders. Soon a spectacular dog fight involving not less than no planes, with the Chinese numerically superior, had developed. Big bombers were seen crashing to the ground, some lighter craft were observed tailspinning into the neighboring Yangtze and Han Rivers...
...Spain. Two days later, with his $1,000 option check in the mail, Parker died. Because no contracts had actually been executed, Parker's heirs had no lien on the script, and it started on its travels all over again. With Hemingway's representative, Captain Rollin Dart-who had met Hemingway in Spain while an officer in the Loyalist Army-in charge of the script, it was wanted by the Theatre Guild, rumored sold to Gilbert Miller, to Jock Whitney. No rumor held water long. Last week, it was officially announced that The Fifth Column had been sold...
...handing out half pints in the pub. She employed Ridgley, dubbed "Tinker" by his cronies, as her gardener, started village tongues to wagging when she drove about the countryside with him last summer. Drummer in the village band, Tinker gained further favor because he was Speen's ace darts player. "Miss Ishbel" has her own team of dart throwers which she pits against teams from neighboring pubs. Tinker is her captain. "I think darts a very clean and fine sport. I wish to encourage the game," she once explained...
MURDER UP MY SLEEVE-Erie Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). One death, by a dart from a Chinese sleeve gun, with suspects that include members of San Francisco's social set, Chinatown characters, and the detective himself (who is Terry Clane, successor to Author Gardner's famed Perry Mason). First rate...