Word: forth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alarm was sent in when the others arrived. The vice-President and Treasurer of the trust company, Phippen, who happened to be outside the building, let the police in. By this time a crowd of 50 people had gathered outside expecting to see a hand-cuffed bandit brought forth...
...Sunday, a sweater and slacks for weekdays. The transition has come suddenly and strangely; we're not sure we like it; we certainly can't explain it, and our heart goes out to the individual caught between two eras, risking a split personality as he is buffered back and forth between the old and the new, not knowing where to turn. We have in mind a man we saw at Sunday dinner. Dressed in a new tweed jacket, of whalebone pattern, and wearing the black knit tie, he pulled from his pocket a large and faded red bandana, and just...
...Canadian National Exposition when he arrived three hours late, and upon being gently reminded of that fact, said, "You ought to be damn glad I got here at all, you chiseling bastards!" . . . The whole industry's going slightly crazy on the idea of electricity since Leopold Stokowski brought forth the idea of an electric symphony orchestra . . . Everything from individual amplification to bands made up of all-electrical instruments is being tried. Leading the band wagon is Barry Wagner of New York, who has a great many of his ideas patented . . . Mannie Klein, star trumpet player, has his lips insured...
...year commercial broadcasting business, conducted mainly from Luxembourg and Normandy for British audiences, who get no commercials from their BBC. Big day for Radio Luxembourg, Radio Normandie and other "outlaw" stations has been Sunday, when the prim BBC goes completely Sabbath. On Sundays, the "outlaws" used to pour forth musical and variety programs acted and recorded in London and air-expressed to the foreign transmitters, briskly dinning Britishers with radio commodities like Alka-Seltzer, Lux, Pepsodent, Kraft Cheese. For a Sunday hour, Luxembourg had recently been charging $2,500, the highest single-station rate in the world...
...Treaty of Versailles either had to be revised as time passed, or England and France . . . had to keep Germany weak by force. Neither policy was followed. Europe wavered back and forth between the two. As a result, another war has begun ... a war which may even lead to the end of our western civilization...