Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Christmas trees were still under drastic Bolshevik ban as Christmas 1935 came to Russia, but just before New Year's Day the Kremlin's policy slued completely around. Excitedly the word flew: "Trees are O. K!" Perspiring peasants furiously chopped, hustled trees to Moscow, where the big Soviet trusts. Government office buildings and communal apartments flooded their courtyards, stuck up a tree in the centre of each, invited one & all in for joyous skating. Exuberant citizens cut stars out of tin cans and hastily rigged up costumes for Grandfather Frost & the Snow Maiden, traditional bringers of presents...
Compton Effect. In his teens Arthur built a glider that actually flew, published articles on aeronautics, made an astronomical clock for a telescope, took pictures of Halley's comet. He got his Ph.D. at Princeton with a dazzling record. After two years of industrial research on lamps for Westinghouse, he said to his wife, "Betty, I'm going back to university work." This was something of a gamble, but he landed a research fellowship at Cambridge under Lord Rutherford. He was appointed head of the physics department at Washington University (St. Louis), went from there to Chicago...
...little Jacobs house in Bay St. Louis, Miss, there was vast commotion one day last week. Telephone and doorbell buzzed like mad, neighbors flew in & out, tongues clacked incessantly. Mrs. Jacobs rang up her husband at his tollhouse on the Pontchartrain Bridge, spoke breathlessly. Stuttering with excitement, he relayed her message by long distance to his two daughters at Louisiana State University, who shrilled the great news through their dormitory. It was three days before Christmas. It was Mrs. Jacobs' 44th birthday. It was also her 22nd wedding anniversary. But none of these pleasant milestones was the cause...
...sooner had Cinemactor Pat O'Brien cracked a pistol to send off 15 teams of riders than these hopes were granted. Partners Gustav Kilian & Heinz Vopel, over whose bunk flew the old German flag lest "non-Aryans" be annoyed, made their Garden debut by bumping soundly, crashing heavily. Undiscouraged, they duplicated their stunt a few minutes later (see cut), this time bringing down Cecil Yates with them. Helped to their cots, where they were thoroughly lubricated and bandaged, they soon joined the chase again. Vopel, still reckless, next collided with Torchy Peden. Over them tumbled Testa, Grimm, Wissel...
...apartment building in New York." Becoming a chorus-girl in London, 21-year-old Sarah Churchill, daughter of Winston Churchill, announced: "My parents are putting up no objections. I made up my mind to become an actress when I was in socks." Down upon a San Francisco landing field flew Cinemactress Claudette Colbert and a throat specialist named Dr. Joel J. Pressman. Because an airline clerk had booked them as "Dr. & Mrs. J. J. Pressman," newscameramen were waiting. Deserting Miss Colbert, Dr. Pressman fled across the field...