Word: downward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan last week Subway Motorman Fred Floodgate had shut off his power and was coasting his northbound express into the West noth Street station when he caught a blurred glimpse of a slim, blonde woman poised on the edge of the platform. The next instant there was a downward flutter of a black-and-tan dress. Motorman Floodgate's hand stiffened on the emergency brake control. Clamped wheels shrieked. The train slid 50 ft. before stopping. Ten minutes later police gathered from the tracks the bloody remains of Elsie Green, 38. Her purse on the platform contained 55¢. A clerk...
...indictment was Sheriff Transou Scott who had amassed secret evidence against the suicide theory. Questions put to the grand jury: How did left-handed Smith Reynolds happen to shoot himself in the right "temple? If he was standing, as his wife said, how did the bullet which traveled downward through his head manage to cut a hole through the porch screen six feet above the floor? Why did detectives fail to find the .32 calibre Mauser, until Walker returned hours later from the hospital? What was the meaning of bloody fingerprints on the door jamb, of a bloody towel...
...fact that he had argued similarly at Republican gatherings for years seemed to win him the respect of the crowd. After Dr. Butler came the turn of Secretary of the Treasury Mills. Obedient to his President, he infuriated his Wet colleagues in the New York delegation by forcefully, with downward jabs of his fists, demanding acceptance of the Administration's plank...
Brilliant but not unblemished, the career of Sir Richard Anderson Squires, Premier of Newfoundland, took a sharp, sensational downward twist last week. By one of the largest Opposition majorities ever piled up in a Dominion election 74% of Newfoundland's ballot casters voted to oust Squires...
...Luby J. ("Jack") Doty, Memphis city employe, recovered consciousness last year, he found that the motor car in which he was going fishing had overturned, exploded, burned two companions to death, seared his back and legs. Piped he: "I'm not a dead soldier." Doctors placed him face downward in a sheet steel oven kept at 103° F. to keep his raw back from chilling (TIME, March 28). Where the seared flesh cleared up, doctors grafted skin. Last week indomitable Jack Doty sat on his front porch, virtually healed, after 412 days in the oven...