Word: grew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Second Fiddles. The scrape of the second fiddle grew loud in the land as a score of the G. O. P.'s ablest performers suddenly learned that the big solo part might have to be reassigned. While the performers tuned up and decided what to play, their friends bowed to the audience to make preliminary introductions. Henry Ford bowed for Herbert C. Hoover. William Randolph Hearst bowed for Andrew W. Mellon. Frank 0. Lowden rushed home to Illinois from the Thousand Islands and repeated his favorite cryptogram about no man ever running away from the presidency. Vice President Dawes clenched...
When William Hearst came to Manhattan where, with money borrowed from his mother,* he acquired another jaundiced journal. He was to cure it of financial jaundice and infect it with another ocherous bug. It was the yellow wrappings of the "funnies" in this newspaper from which grew the household epithet "yellow journalism...
...three minutes a motion picture camera played against a laboratory screen at Rochester, N. Y., last week. In the picture were what seemed to be animated sausages approximately one-fourth of an inch long and one-twelth of an inch in diameter. They unfolded, grew, multiplied. They were bacteria magnified 2,000 times and photographed in motion by an ordinary moving picture camera ingeniously fitted to an ordinary microscope...
Married. Miss Lilla Cabot Grew, daughter of Joseph Clark Grew, U. S. Ambassador to Turkey; to Jay Pierrepont Moffat, first Secretary in the U. S. Legation at Ottawa; at Hancock...
...began to visit around the country, at first in very grown-up long trousers, later in more grown-up short ones, with a flaming Swiss Guard's cap during the War (when he helped get $150,000 for the Red Cross) and a smile that grew broader and readier as he filled out, steadied down and began to win the biggest tournaments?Robert Tyre Jones Jr. of golf and Atlanta...