Word: fronted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eleanor Roosevelt's younger (46) brother, his most conspicuous appearance in print up to last week had been in his sister's autobiography in which she wrote that she felt a "great responsibility for him." Last week Gracie Hall Roosevelt suddenly found himself paraded across the front pages in the U. S. This was surprising enough but the reason was more so. It was a rumor that he had invited Henry Ford to lunch at the White House. Two days later, even more astonishingly, the rumor was confirmed. Said Henry Ford in Sudbury, Mass.. where...
...front cover...
Feeling their way along the 1,000-mile Spanish front for a soft spot to strike next, last week the Rightists struck Madrid. Taking advantage of the shift of thousands of Leftist Spain's best veteran troops to other more pressing areas, Rightist troops drove their way into Parque del Oeste, succeeded in momentarily scaring Leftist defenders of the University City salient...
...sure harbinger of spring for the past three years has been Dizzy Dean on the front page. For many a U. S. citizen Dizzy's arrogant predictions and bombastic salary disputes have served as a memo that another baseball season was getting under...
While baseball fans chased such hypotheses round in circles, Dizzy Dean's old teammates, the irrepressible Gas House Gang with whom he has been cavorting ever since he entered big-league baseball, were plainly grieved. But General Manager Branch Rickey sounded the curt keynote of the front office: "The Cardinals will now be a 23-player club, not a Dizzy Dean club...