Word: elbowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mistakes & Sins. In Rome last week, aside from the cares of war (see p. 14), the Dictator busied himself daily grappling with the awful risks he runs by steering a Victorian course in 1935. At his very elbow last week was the League of Nations in the person of grey-haired, ruddy-cheeked Sir Eric Drummond. As Secretary General of the League from its founding until he resigned amid widespread regret two years ago, this British Ambassador to Rome is ripe with "The Spirit of Geneva," "The Spirit of Locarno...
...House remodeling caused him to be removed to Washington's Naval Hospital. Last week the approaching Presidential campaign brought Invalid Howe back briefly into the news when an Associated Pressman went to his hospital bed, interviewed him for the first time since he fell ill. Perched on an elbow, his pent-up thoughts tumbling out in a staccato jumble, the gnarled, gnome-like little oldster crackled...
...great day for Miss Collins, who stood at her auctioneer's elbow throughout the long, dull sale. She tried to preserve the dignity of the occasion by sternly denying entrance to all photographers but scores of newsmen milled craning about the small group of men seated before the block. In that group were representatives of the bankers who bid to protect themselves. At a tall desk with clerks and calculating machines stood Col. Leonard P. Ayres, Cleveland Trust Co.'s vice president-economist who bid in behalf of Mid-American Corp., especially chartered last week...
Sitting beside Pilot Mulqueeny, Outfielder Koenecke soon became rambunctious. He began nudging Mulqueeny, grabbing the controls, locking his arm about the startled pilot's neck. Suddenly Koenecke leaped at Parachuter Davis. sank his teeth through several layers of cloth into the smaller man's elbow, bore him to the floor, tore at his clothes, bit into his flesh again & again...
...sometimes three ceremonies a day took place last week in the White House office. While proud Congressional parents stood at his elbow, the President baptized bill after bill with "Franklin D. Roosevelt." Not one important bill left by Congress did he veto. Proudest signing of the week was that of the Guffey Coal Bill attended by a host of Congressional godfathers, watched over by John L. Lewis and other officers of the United Mine Workers and followed at once by 1) steps to call off the coal strike scheduled for Sept. 24 and 2) a suit filed by Carter Coal...