Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spend most of my time, doggone it, with a big family to cook for, down in the basement when I do my washing, just because I don't want to miss news reports or occasional flashes. And then like a dunce I just have to get the Detroit paper to get more complete details of the news reports, although we have a very excellent small-town paper that comes regularly to the house...
...only after the Chicago Black Hawks made two goals in the last five minutes. In their second, they beat the Rangers, 4-to-2. The Toronto Maple Leafs beat Boston in their opener, 5-to-3, and two nights later nosed out the Canadiens, 2-to-1. The Detroit Red Wings used a new goalie, Normie Smith, lost their opening game to Boston...
Stumping for Democratic candidates in Detroit last week was Negro Jack Johnson, onetime (1908-15) world's heavyweight champion. Cried he to the Universal Negro Improvement Association: "Franklin D. Roosevelt is champion now and wearing the belt. Abraham Lincoln was a good fighter in his prime, but he can't help us now. Always string along with the champion...
...Piccard popped her head out of the gondola of the stratosphere balloon in which she and her husband had taken off eight hours before from Detroit's Ford Airport. She found herself on a wooded farm near Cadiz, Ohio. The big bag, limp, torn and empty, was dismally draped over a tall elm. In a treetop the Piccards' U. S. flag flapped bravely...
...Architect Eliel Saarinen invited Sculptor Milles to teach and work at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in pleasant, rolling Bloomfield Hills, near Detroit. There Carl Milles created his huge Orpheus fountain which many of his admirers consider the greatest of his great work.* Milles modeled an Orpheus descending from Heaven, his lyre resting on his left shoulder, his right hand plucking its invisible strings. Directly beneath Orpheus a stylized Cerberus is about to doze off into careless sleep. Around the rim of the fountain nude figures are arrested in various postures by the strains of Orpheus' music. A very...