Word: fresh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese the best war news in a long time was the absence for several days last week of Japanese announcements of fresh advances. Tucked away in Tokyo communiqués there were even statements that sizable Japanese forces in captured North China territory among the mountains of Shansi had been fed with biscuits dropped by Japanese bombers...
...passport holders living within the militia-guarded walls of the spacious, 40-roomed American Embassy in Madrid have eaten few delicacies during the last 15 months, but have nevertheless enjoyed an abundance of rich milk, fresh eggs, even non-rancid olive oil-items generally missing from the present Madrid cuisine. The American newsmen, Filipinos, Puerto Ricans now residents of the once ducal palace have to thank no U. S. diplomatic or consular representative for these wholesome victuals, but Captain Frank William Cannaday, a gloomy, stubborn Virginian who fought in the Spanish-American War and prospected for gold in Venezuela before...
...years ago a fresh, good-looking, young cop sat astride his motorcycle in the city of Evanston (pop. 68,000), Chicago's strait-laced North Shore suburb. On his mind were two things, the Law, which he was studying at night, and the violators of Law. Of the latter, most interesting to him were violators of automobile ordinances. With a flair for order, exactitude and investigation he was soon stepping full stride into an almost unexploited field. Last week the same young man, now Lieut. Franklin Martin Kreml, 34, of the Evanston Police Department, organizer of Accident Prevention Bureaus...
...Redhaired, ingratiating Theodore Newton (Dead End), appeared as the luckless suitor, tries in vain to better matters with dignified restraint. Gloria Dickson, the Pocatello, Idaho girl who stepped from the Federal Theatre into Hollywood fame (They Won't Forget), endowed the young actress with dazzling blondness and a fresh, strong prairie accent. As her sister, Edith Barrett, despite the limp and a tendency to Fletcherize her lines, turned in the best performance...
...college for social studies. Thereupon, the onetime bicycle mechanic, now the Henry Ford of Great Britain, who has given $55,000,000 to British education and charity and still has some $100,000,000 left, announced he would give no more. Giving, said he, "is very nice," but each fresh benefaction brings him 300 begging letters daily. Complained Lord Nuffield: "It has caused me 500% more trouble since I started than my business...