Word: grew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England the position of frail little Haile Selassie grew so painful last week that His Majesty abruptly departed with his children for Scotland, unable to endure in London what was about to be done in the House of Commons...
Somewhat over one million French proletarians continued on strike as last week opened, despite frantic efforts by Socialist Blum to give them all they said they wanted and get them back to work. Even the French Communist Party, which at first had encouraged and sought to foment strikes, grew appalled by the extent to which they had got beyond what anyone could imagine was Communist Party control. In a speech which the Socialist Premier himself might have made, apple-cheeked Maurice Thorez, head man of French Communism, sought to stem the spontaneous, nationwide strikes, declared: "Strikers must know...
...chose to strike and make demands on their employers. Simultaneous but individual strikes had already begun on a large scale fortnight ago and many French employers were already knuckling down to their workers by granting 10% and 15% pay increases (TIME, June 8), but last week strikes spread and grew until Jean Frenchman, some 1,000,000 strong, was telling his employer not to go to Hades but simply to ameliorate working conditions...
...Damrosch visited there, offered a Metropolitan contract to Therese Forster, a comely young singer who was to become Mrs. Victor Herbert. Damrosch offered Herbert $60 per week for the sake of signing up the singer he wanted. Mrs. Herbert's heyday was brief. She retired to bear children, grew plumper & plumper, never quite mastered the English language...
Leroy (pronounced Leeroy) Haynes grew up in South Bend, Ind., where he sang in the Baptist Church, hung around the Notre Dame football field to run errands for the late Knute Rockne, learned to talk and dress like a college boy. Six years ago, when he was 18, he went to Los Angeles to live with his sister. His brother-in-law persuaded him to try professional boxing in 1932. Last year, when Joe Louis arrived in Los Angeles to fight Lee Ramage, he offered Leroy Haynes a job as sparring partner. Haynes refused, offered to fight Louis instead. Louis...