Word: glared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Football breeds courage: where lesser men would have fled Bradford merely sat in his car, waiting for something else to happen. Then from the locker room a sound, very much like loud laughter, caused him to glare in that direction for a moment, then start his car again and drive very quickly from the field...
...tried to stop dredging for a barge terminal on the grounds that it endangered the piers of a Pennsy bridge. And for good measure Messrs. Atterbury & Williamson sought a Federal injunction against the entire project. Pittsburgh Coal merely sent in more steamshovels, kept them working winter nights under the glare of searchlights. When labors ceased last month, grading was practically complete, 12-½-mi. of track had been laid. Fortnight ago Judge West of the U. S. District Court in Cleveland denied Messrs. Atterbury & Williamson a permanent injunction. ''It is true that some deception, or at least sharp...
...shirt sleeves. To a newshawk who boarded the train he said: "I'm sorry but I'm not discussing national issues," quizzed the newshawk instead about Nebraska farmers. At the depot in Chicago a crowd of 500 peered and cheered as Mr. Hoover stepped under the glare of camera flashlights. "I'm just a common garden variety of American citizen come to see the Chicago Fair," he remonstrated. Next day as he drove up to the 14th Street entrance of the Fair a squad of cavalry and a battalion of troops snapped to attention. Citizen Hoover smiled...
...unwelcome publicity, he started a report for President Roosevelt on the recovery plan and a set of recommendations on U. S. policy at the London Conference. When a citizen in Oklahoma sent a telegram to "Bernard M. Baruch. Unofficial President of the United States." Mr. Baruch, no seeker after glare and glory, retired to his suite at the Carlton Hotel. "I'm not even a $1-a-year man." he joked, trying to dampen reports of his semi-official importance. "I'm an 85? a year man. The President has reduced all Federal salaries...
...insulting. Last winter Dwight Fiske progressed from speakeasies to Manhattan's most elegant café, the Mayfair Yacht Club. Last week two things made it appear that his celebrity- like that of Helen Morgan and Jimmy Durante who preceded him from the orchidaceous gloom of cabarets into the glare of Broadway and the cinema- would presently outgrow Manhattan. It was rumored that he was soon to leave the Mayfair Yacht Club for Hollywood where his wit, properly censored, would provide an element thus far missing (see p. 30) in musical productions. Last week also, to the amazement...