Word: frogging
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...skyscraper is unpractical, but John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s Radio City did the next best thing by announcing that it would swamp the sunken plaza, which is a tourist restaurant in summer, to make the first skating pond on Fifth Avenue since the Plaza Hotel was a frog pond...
...Boldly Playwright Clifford Bax offered this week at a London little theatre his new piece The King and Mistress Shore. Jane Shore was the mistress of King Edward IV and after his death was, by order of King Richard III, frog-marched through the streets of London to be reviled by the populace and finally imprisoned for what was declared to be the crime of "committing adultery with His Late Majesty." The Lord Chamberlain, who acts as Britain's play censor, has no power to ban productions in such little theatres where entrance is supposed...
...smartest man in Spain today is obese and blotchy onetime Premier Manuel Azana. When he saw things slipping beyond his control as Premier, he got himself elected President of Spain with a salary of 1,000,000 pesetas yearly and another 1,000,000 for the expenses of his frog-faced self and young wife...
...Orleans, U. S. deputy marshals arrested Albert Broel, 46, his friend and fellow Frog-Fancier Sylvester Schutt, charged them with advertising that their frogs would lay 25,000 eggs a year, that in 13 years a brace would return a profit...
...Iowa Hill, Calif., because Wilbur Randall planned to put a frisky frog under the school bell, then twisted the arm of a younger pupil who threatened to tattle, Teacher Leona George, 63, marched down the aisle, separated her quarreling charges. From a brief scuffle Wilbur Randall emerged with both his eyes blacked. Afterward he told his mother, a school trustee, that Teacher George had struck him with the bell. Teacher George was haled before the district attorney and the county superintendent of schools. She insisted that Wilbur's wound was accidental, but grimly admitted to having once whipped...