Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heard the voice nodded their approval, threw switches for a real broadcast. After an introduction by NBC President Merlin Hall Aylesworth, Banker Morgan donned gold-rimmed spectacles (usually he wears pince-nez), picked up in his right hand a manuscript which he had written longhand, spoke in an easy, deep "telephone" voice. It was Banker Morgan's first broadcast. He did it to help the "Block-Aid" campaign to help New York's needy. Excerpt: "We have reached a point where the aid of governments or the gifts of individuals, no matter how generous, are insufficient to meet...
...horizontal beams of the afternoon sun were probing a cloud-bank in the East. A dark, jagged line broke the horizon where the clouds parted. The figure in the bow started and stared a moment. "Land, ho!" The caked dirt cracked on the seamen's cheeks in the deep furrows of broad grins. Rotting shirts split across the shoulders as the men leaped to their feet. Not every man could have given the order to sail on to the mainland...
...always nearer, always louder. At last with a great roar it burst out around the high walls of the Bastille and the Revolution had begun. The Paris mob broke up running, shouting, shrieking, calling, hurling, swearing, beating, advancing, swarming; but always moving, always attacking, always increasing. They stormed the deep ditch, the double draw bridge, the eight great towers amid cannon, musket fire and smoke. And in the crowd stood Defarge of the wine shop grown hot with the work of four fierce hours. He called to his men, he shouted at his wife, he bellowed at the sky until...
...Avco's working personnel, who had developed a deep affection for their president, his departure was a shock. He had just returned from Arizona with a victory over Errett Lobban Cord's Century Pacific Air Lines Ltd. Arizona's Corporation Commission had refused Century a certificate of convenience & necessity to carry intrastate passengers on a route paralleling American Airways. Three days after his return President Coburn summoned all office employes into the maple-paneled board room, gripped the back of a chair, bade them goodby. Said he at the end, "I've had such a good...
When Lydersen is given a post office promotion over Berger's head, in deep chagrin Berger gets himself transferred to Oslo. After years of desperate loneliness he chums up with a man who turns out to be Rognaas, the only man ever to take his side. At the height of their intense friendship Rognaas confesses that he was one of the bandits; his story absolves Berger of any taint of cowardice. But Berger cannot tell on his friend, even to justify himself to the whole world. Instead, he hits on a plan to justify himself to Lydersen, his chief...