Word: followance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Silence in the observation train. The entire flotills of destroyers, patrol boats, canoes, yachts, and excursion steamers which follow the wake of the racing shells seem to pause in absolute quiet. Clearly, Referee Curtiss voice rings out for all to hear, "Are you ready...
...INTERVALS of one hour, the three races, freshman, junior varsity, and will be rowed for respective distances of two, three, and four miles, begins at four o'clock eastern standard time. Each time, the observation train will start follow the boats, as will the river flotills. Twice they will retrace their movement until the big varsity race...
...follow Mr. Cagney's doings from the time he goes down to Washington as a rookie among the federal boys, through a series of hair-raising vicissitudes entailed in the wiping out of some 14 public enemies, until we see him as the noblest G Man of them all, marrying the lovely creature who has been tending his wounds...
...list of nominees follow...
Edward Estlin Cummings fulfills a U. S. tradition in being the cut-up son of a parson. The U. S. public (in so far as it has heard of him) takes him much less seriously than the unfortunate typesetters who have to follow his rocketing, pinwheeling copy. Whether Poet Cummings has started a tradition of his own is a question that only posterity will answer. To his own day he looks like a one-man poetic party. As leftwing, literarily, as they come, he is antipolitical; he pulls rude but only partly understandable faces at Communists, New Dealers and GOPartisans...