Word: exits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President was ready to broadcast the sound of Colorado River water rushing from twelve 7-ft. valves, spilling 180 ft. down into the canyon below the dam. But at first the only response to his noble invocation was silence. Someone had blundered. Secretary Marvin Mclntyre made a hasty exit. Then after a short delay the radio gulped, began a mighty Brrrrrrrrr! A moment later Mr. Mclntyre reported: "Doc Smithers [White House telegrapher] flashed the dam, 'Did you get it?' And they came back 'Yes. There's water all over the place...
Smiling, the President made a dramatic exit to a double roar of water and applause...
...Clarence Saunders astounded the grocery trade by starting Piggly-Wiggly Stores, Inc., in which customers did most of the work, got their groceries cheaply. Receiving a basket at an entrance turnstile, a shopper picked up her own purchases, carried them to the cashier's desk at the exit. By 1923 Grocer Saunders was rich and Piggly-Wiggly was a $7,000,000 corporation listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Enraged at reports of wolfish raids on Piggly-Wiggly, Mr. Saunders once rushed to Manhattan in a special train with "a bag of gold" estimated...
...While I was going through this door I had a view of the top of the exit stairway, and I saw a policeman's head. He was sort of peeking around the edge of the partition and then ducked away...
...devoted to a concert arrangement of Cavalleria Rusticana in which the Chorus outshone Helen Jepsor of the Metropolitan Opera, whose voice was too pallid for the big dramatic aria. She made her chief impression with her shimmering blonde hair, her tight-fitting green gown, the way she made her exit blowing kisses to the storehands...