Word: dashes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...incomparable Samuel Goldwyn dug deep into his plush, silken topper and drew out Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Adolph Menjou, The Ritz Brothers, Kenny Baker, Andrea Leeds, Helen Jepson, and the great Zorina. He mixed them all together, added a dash of technicolor, and even put his name in the title; and out of it all emerged "The Goldwyn Follies." Wandering in and out of Hollywood sets and hamburg stands, leaping from the insane antics of the Ritz brothers to the majestic beauty of "La Traviata," and combining jazz and the ballet in preposterous fashion, it dwarfs everything previously produced...
...team held in the Locker Building yesterday afternoon. He was prepared at Phillips Exeter Academy where he was captain of the track team in his last year. During the relay trials, he was elected acting captain of the Freshman relay team. He will run in the 440-yard dash and 880-yard...
...Federal employes in Washington, he alone made practically all the news. Renewing his contact with the electorate by radio, addressing Congress for the first time on Recession, communicating unconventionally with the House & Senate tax committees, greeting Pan America, appointing a new Red Cross head, Franklin Roosevelt showed a brilliant dash of the old form (see following columns...
What was modestly termed "your germ of laughter, your dash of tabasco and wit that will enable you to swallow your crumbs along with your oysters," was made available to an enthralled body of newsstand patrons yesterday afternoon...
Last week, had they cared to, Actress Eva Le Gallienne, after a lacklustre season of her own, and Junior Laemmle, out of a job at 30, might have seen Actress Bette Davis, with plenty of sincerity and more than a dash of sex appeal, demonstrate that she is well worth the $3,500-odd a week Warner Brothers now pay her 40 weeks of the year...