Word: forward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with great pleasure that I heard your broadcast of Thursday night [Oct. 15] in which you reviewed the news covered by the "March of Time" since its inception, and announced that it will henceforth be presented under your own sponsorship. I look forward to a bigger and better "March of Time" than ever before...
...over nowadays to freight, the line runs an annual excursion for the Railroad Enthusiasts, organization of engine lovers that migrates from Boston and other New England points. Manager William B. McCleland and President Harry Pope are cordial hosts to the enthusiasts who know every inch of the line, look forward with glee to the rattles and cinders of the antiquated rolling stock...
...career thus far, by hurling a kindling speech at his excited friends and countrymen: "My Government has overcome the twin menaces of Communism and Chinese disunion. We can wholly dismiss any insinuation that some exterior Great Power is needed to help China maintain order within her own borders. Forward, fellow citizens, to revive our old national traits of self-reliance, of self-government, temperance and self-consciousness. Show the world that the Chinese people can do great things...
Further pleas were answered by a Great Silence. Mrs. Houdini then said clearly: "Houdini has not come. I do not believe he will ever come." She covered her face with her hands. The lights went up and photographers crowded forward. In the street a Halloween firecracker exploded...
Excelling in his portraits of children and young married folk. Author Weller finds his hardest going in sketches of addled Bohemians and wistful old maids, breaks down entirely in his account of a nudist, makes little progress with his concluding story of an aged widow who looks forward to still greater mechanical marvels and wants to live to see them. His book is too crowded with well-to-do eccentrics to be a representative U. S. study. But literary motorists will object most to its pace, and reflect that no nation of murderously fast drivers ever chugged along so safely...