Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...League of Nations. On the League's second birthday, 50,000 turned out in London to cheer it, although Lloyd George had just warned: "You must not run a thing like this too hard. . . . Every failure at this stage is a ruinous one. It is like the fall of an infant; it may get a broken spine and limp for the rest of its days...
...straw-hat circuit, Henry is worth every C-note of it. Horton gives a carefully turned performance as one of the most redoubtable rakes that ever jumped a garden wall. "I do not fall into the bass drum," he admits, "nor do I go up with the curtain. But everything else, I do." He simpers like a ninny, gives masterly double and triple takes (and even a few one-and-a-half takes, a Horton refinement). He waggles his square head in an idiotic semaphore of self-satisfaction, leers with lips that fit together like two nicked razor blades...
Things were looking up for teachers in all 48 states. On the basis of a nationwide survey, the New York Times reported last week that teachers are "making the greatest financial gains in their history." By next fall salaries will be up an average of $400 a year. The biggest boost was given by Indiana, where the average teacher's average pay has jumped from $2,011 to $3,000. Mississippi, the lowest-paying state, has raised its average salary from $875 a year...
...late Miss White, starring Betty Hutton. Betty starts as a sweatshop girl, moves on to become a dumb theatrical trouper, bursts into bloom as the queen of silent serials, and fades off into a Paris nightclub when movie audiences tire of her innocent melodramatics. On the way up she falls in love with an arrogant stage actor (John Lund) who resents her screen success; in the last scene, after a crippling fall, it is implied that she sacrifices her thin chances for life rather than stand him up on a date...
...seconds of "women's news," promptly plunges into her tortured fictional love life. By the end of the first broadcast, the new heroine was in an old, all-too-familiar lather. "She turns deathly pale," the announcer confided, "and, but for Gil Kendal's ready arm, would fall...