Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt candidacy for President was so far advanced last week that its managers were already discussing swaps and trades to put their man over. There was a tentative casting about for a vice presidential running mate. Perhaps it would be Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia. Or then it might be Governor George White of Ohio who would get his State's 52 votes on the first ballot. Opponents of Governor Roosevelt's nomination were making no visible progress uniting on one of the other candidates in the field. And a full field it was, with a great assortment...
Long-nosed Viceroy Lord Willingdon took time off from his troubles with Indian Nationalists last week to go to Sukkur on the Indus, in northwestern India. There on a platform glittering with native princes and staff officers, he threw a switch and opened the flood gates of the biggest irrigation project in the world. With British talent for resonant names it is known as the Lloyd Barrage...
...sums for his tram's food and gasoline. Accompanied by his mother, Father Cox stepped out on the portico of his church, consulted his lieutenants. Two were priests like himself, another a lawyer. Waiting to join him en route was prizefighting, pants-pressing Mayor Edward McCloskey of Johnstown (1889 flood town). Then Father Cox signalled for his motorcade of 1,000 trucks and cars to get underway, climbed into the lead lorry...
...element which is almost impossible to explain?an element of spontaneity and charm. Typical shot: Heather having fun with a musical bottle which tinkles when she lifts it. Janet Gaynor's first noticeable role in the cinema was that of a girl who got wet in The Johnstown Flood. Before that she had been a clerk in a San Francisco lawyer's office, a public school student in the dozen or more cities where her stepfather Harry C. Jones ("Jonesy" to her) plied his trade of electrician. Now in Europe, Cinemactress Gaynor generally prefers Honolulu for her holidays. A Honolulu...
...astounding success Ballyhoo opened the gates to a flood of imitators intent upon outdoing it in bawdry alone. Result: on newsstands of the land last week appeared two new magazines, "Aw Nerts!" and Slapstick which, with other recent offerings (Tickle-Me-Too, Hooey) comprise as vile a mess of reading as has ever been put on sale...