Word: fan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shaped set of avenues and courts, they made a sheer 80-foot bulwark a quarter-of-a-mile long against the trade wind that blows off the Pacific. To keep the wind out at the west entrances, blue-eyed, sandy-haired Architect Ernest Weihe, fussing around with an electric fan, feathers and a cardboard model, devised "wind baffles"-a series of 80-foot vertical slabs placed like converging flys on a stage, with open passages to left and right between them. The clean monumentality of this effect was also used to set off Sculptor Ralph Stackpole's heroic-sized...
...functions assumed by the Hays organization is to help studios prevent fan magazines from outdoing Hollywood itself in bad taste, scandal and pornography. Said Hays Organization Public Relations Man Tom Pettey: "The article is pretty bad. The title is even worse. ... I don't know what we'll do about it but we'll certainly take some action...
Knocked into a cocked hat last week was the old sport axiom that a good, big man can always beat a good, little man. Henry Armstrong, Negro fisticuffer, is a little man. No fight fan will deny that he is a good man: he won the world's featherweight (126 lb. max.) championship, then fattened up and won the welterweight (147 lb.) championship, then turned to the lightweight division and won that championship (135 lb.) too-all within ten months. Ceferino Garcia, Filipino welterweight, is also a good man in the ring: he has a paralyzing ''bolo...
...estate, nee Eliza Bowen of Providence, Rhode Island, believes a woman can achieve anything she wishes if only she marry the right man. Successively she become an actress, the wife of a prominent American merchant, Stephan Jumel, and finally Mrs. Aaron Burr; throughout all this she keeps a rabid fan of Napoleon on her mind and in her heart...
Popularity of a movie star can be measured by box-office value, fan mail, exhibitors' polls, salary. Owners of theatres in small villages and small cities, where westerns are most favored and where Hollywood's most touted stars often play to empty seats, call Autry the industry's "mortgage lifter." His fan mail averages 4,000 letters a week, more than Clark Gable's or Shirley Temple's. In exhibitor polls of western stars he stands at the top. Autry's pay, $12,500 per picture, is not what it might be, but this...