Word: downward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such changes of management did not brake the Garden's steady downward plummet in prestige and profits. Boxing, once the corporation's most flourishing sport, attracted 206,000 spectators in 1932-33. 83,000 in 1933-34. The unpopularity of gaudy Matchmaker James Joy Johnston, who developed the practice of putting his brother's fighters on his increasingly unsuccessful cards, finally alienated the best of the country's fight managers and boxers who once considered a Garden engagement a crowning achievement. The final blow fell when the Ross-Petrolle lightweight championship tight was held last winter...
...from Cheyenne, Wyo. flew an Army observation plane with Lieuts. Frank L. Howard and Arthur R. Kerwin Jr., on a practice mail flight to Salt Lake City. The ship circled the town once, headed west from the airport when the motor began spitting. Slanting downward the plane whipped through a high tension line, bored into the ground, burst into flame. Lieuts. Howard & Kerwin were cremated...
...opening day he attached 18 rockets to the lower wings of his biplane, roared off into an inside loop. For a few moments the small night crowd saw what appeared to be a giant glowing cigar butt trace a circle in the dark sky. The circle then swooped downward, burst into flames and Stunter Nelson screamed just once as he was incinerated...
...that for him--and he has now fixed a lower limit of 59.06 to be exact, so that foreign governments may know there is less than one per cent of variation upward that Mr. Roosevelt can make and there is slightly over nine per cent that he can go downward...
...hands, palms up, for applause. He is more convincing and formidable than any living operatic Don Juan. Every motion he makes is a shrewd and funny parody of the way human beings move. His chief difference from a man is that he moves, not upward from his feet but downward from his shoulders, barely touching the floor...