Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soon the lobby of the Bellevue-Stratford and the stairs down to its bar were strewn with Democrats so deep in their cups that they could not reach their seats in Convention Hall. On the basis of liquor consumed, the Republican Convention in Cleveland seemed, by contrast, with the Democratic one in Philadelphia, to be a meeting of the W. C. T. U." (TIME, July...
While President Roosevelt was last week telling newshawks in his air-cooled White House office how he proposed to inspect the drought area next month, a pert newshawk asked if by any chance he would make a few political speeches on that trip. A deep frown gullied the President's face. Drought, he snapped, was much too serious to mix with politics...
Office. Hitherto Japan and Germany have been so deep in diplomatic cahoots that Russia has openly been arming to resist an East and West "pinching of Communism" between the armed forces of Germany and Japan. Last week, however, the Japanese War Office liked its story of an economic pact by Germany and China behind Japan's back so much that at once in Peiping "reprisals" were taken by Japan's swashbucklers...
...East End as "salesman, janitor and general pack-horse," was made color conscious by his merchandise. Against his father's advice, Lawrence Saint apprenticed himself to a stained glass artist, scrimped and saved to attend the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. At this time a deep religious experience led him to join the Presbyterian Church, worry about the propriety of painting nude females. Ribald fellow students tied him up, carried him by force to a model's stand where an undraped woman was posing. High-minded Lawrence Saint abashed his tormentors by keeping his eyes closed, walked...
...pool full of screaming children who, on the hottest day in New York's history, showed no inclination whatever to climb out and let the experts in. When the children were finally shunted to one side, the crowning absurdity was revealed. The pool was only three-feet deep instead of the Olympic standard of five. Long-armed swimmers, usually the ablest, who tried to do the crawl scraped their fingernails on the bottom. Said Olympic Coach Ray Daughters: "Mark my words . . . the tryouts are going to be miserable...