Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soared as high as 350,000, dropped to an average of 180,000 last year. In December it was 142,000. Two prime reasons:1) College students, with trouble enough paying school bills, hesitate to spend the price of a meal for magazine amusement; 2) Ballyhoo, at 15¢ made deep inroads...
...velvet-cased wives and to wellspoken jewel robbers that they get together. Kay Francis is a Viennese who has a husband and a lover but is looking for a Man. She identifies herself as "shallow and weak" but a Woman. After a romp in a morning bath three feet deep in suds, a relay encased in towels from maid to maid, a gradual insinuation into the usual clothing and some gay prattle with a friend, Kay Francis toward evening goes to a jewel shop with husband, lover and friend. She meets the king of the jewel thieves (William Powell) engaged...
...Carbondale, Ill., Herman Rushkorff, farmer, was accustomed to drink wine in his cool cellar until he fell asleep. Last week wine-bibbing Herman Rushkorff dozed, fell with his face in a puddle of wine one inch deep, drowned...
...Francisco earthquake of 1906 he suffered injuries to his shoulder and foot. Short while later in Manhattan he underwent an operation, was in bed for months. Says he: "It was while I was flat on my back, after that operation, that I became 'John Martin.' . . . There has been a deep and strong undercurrent in my life, an urge that kept pushing me on. It was a great love of children, a desire to give them something of the joy and understanding my mother had given me. . . . I began to write verses for children. . . . I signed these verses 'John Martin' because...
...grinning, good-natured host to the Bonus Expeditionary Force. The youngest Army Brigadier in France, he understood these tattered, jobless, hungry Veterans who without invitation had marched by thousands upon Washington. He helped them build crude quarters on Anacostia flats. He handled their scant funds for food, dug deep in his own pocket, none too well lined, for more. He kept the peace between a dozen rival factions and earned the affectionate respect of each. Altogether General Glassford gave Washington and the country a remarkable demonstration of mob management without benefit of tear gas, riot club or machine...