Word: facings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rigidly, that he looked young, fit and earnest. Elizabeth was the perfect Queen: eyes a snapping blue, chin tilted confidently, two fingers raised in a greeting as girlish as it was regal. Her long-handled parasol seemed out of a story book. She wore an "unselfish" off-the-face hat and the parasol failed to save her Scottish skin from Southern sunburn. Washington was 94° that day. Along the processional route, 500 people collapsed. So did 60 Girl Scouts, waiting at the White House to be reviewed. From the Boy Scouts (he was one) the King received a neckerchief...
...Washington, without pay, as an Air Corps technical adviser. As luck would have it his ship docked on the night of the newspaper photographers' annual ball and the ball was at a standstill while cameramen fumed on the dock for an hour and a half until Lindbergh, his face frozen in the glum glower into which it falls when he sees a news camera, showed himself. The photographers were naturally resentful, but Lindbergh did not know about the ball, did not know the ship had docked because he was talking to his friend, Dr. Carrel...
...made news for the press. Last week it all happened again when his latest work, a three-ton figure in pink alabaster entitled Adam, was exhibited at the Leicester Galleries. In general mass and demeanor Adam resembled an unusually upright gorilla with his fists at his chest and his face lifted manlike toward the stars. The conception was obvious and the execution direct...
...Commencement Day, as the year officially closes, the Huntington School diploma will be awarded to those who have earned it. Now it is as good a time as any to congratulate these young men and to wish them success as they face the future. May they continue to find rewards for good work done as other years in their life experience open and close. C. H. Sampson, in the Huntington Record...
...little numb as he climbs into the front seat of the roller-coaster. He mutters something about a coward dying a thousand times and plasters a grin on his face. A bell rings, somebody screams, and the cars begin to move. Seven times or bust! Vacation...