Word: dormant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...failed to wring hysterical whoops from his audience: slowly pulling off his pants and flinging them at the chandelier. "After that I could just lay back and rest for about five minutes." Unlike the stork, it would appear that boudoir farce has not been dead all these years, just dormant, for the curtain which rises on Playwright Kottow's show discloses right spang in the middle of the stage a fine big bed. Soon a whole set of theatrical tintypes begin to appear: the rake who has promised to disdain his innocent little bride until his mistress gives...
...year notes. The elevated lines grew progressively unprofitable. Last year they showed a loss of $4,000,000 which I. R. T. had to make good from its subway earnings. Knowing that I. R. T. would be unable to meet its notes on Sept. 1, Banker Morgan revived a dormant committee last July, wrote to all holders urging them to support plans for unification of all New York subways as the best way to obtain eventual payment. Recommending the same course Banker Charles Hayden of Hayden, Stone & Co. formed a protective committee for another note issue due in October. Both...
...love of football, dormant all through the season, was tardily awakened by a succinct little account of the Harvard-Yale game, in the Continental edition of the London Daily Mail. After a short introductory paragraph explaning to its readers on the Continent that the game had been won by Yale with a score of 3-0, the Daily Mail swung into the fray: "A 'spinner' by Yale's right half through the centre gave the first down to the Crimsons (Harvard) at the 11-yard mark. Then Eli, the Yale left half, heaved a long one that failed...
...milk of human kindness to curdle. Her son she considers a weakling, and she is on the verge of making her daughter an automaton, trained to carry on the Green tradition of close-fisted, hard-hearted dealings. It happens that the son redeems himself, and the young girl's dormant emotions are awkened by the agency of Mr. James Hall, who, incidentally, turned in a rather flabby performance...
...because planes used by Army & Navy had joy-sticks.* Also he sued Fairchild Airplane Manufacturing Co. and Chance-Vought Corp. for their commercial planes. The Fairchild com pany settled out of court this year. The Vought case is pending in New York. The claim against the Government lay dormant until recently when Claims Com missioner Hayner H. Gordon reopened the case. Should his claim be upheld. Inventor Esnault-Pelterie was reputedly pre pared to demand $2,500,000 royalties from the Government alone, untold sums from commercial builders in future suits...