Word: grew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rank & File Committee was in a belligerent mood, and soon grew more so. They said: "We'd like to see General Johnson walk up to an open-hearth furnace and get his summer pants scorched for $21.84 a week." The hard-boiled ex-cavalry officer retorted that in the saddle he had worn enough skin off his fundament to make half a dozen such critics as the Rank & Filers. Next morning he read in the papers an open letter to himself...
About the time John Tyler was President of the U. S., the Creeks were looking with awe and reverence on a child that had been born among them near Fort Sill. Like most primitive peoples they regarded half-wits as inspired. Nearly fifty years passed and the inspired child grew to middle age. In Grover Cleveland's time he was making 75? a day as a farm hand near Henryetta, Okla., living in a miserable shack, dressing in dirty blankets. The people of Henryetta knew him as Crazy Jack but on the Government's records...
...vain. Charging many cases of violence, the company got an injunction restraining the union from posting more than 25 pickets at its gates. Even so. workers had to fight their way in and out of the shop, morning and evening. Strikers were arrested for breaking the picketing injunction. Tension grew, then snapped. All one day last week strikers besieged the Auto-Lite plant. By evening the 1,500 workers within, exchanging missiles with the strikers outside, dared not leave. They spent the night barricaded in the plant while windows were smashed, gates broken down. Next day Ohio's Governor...
...records his first private words to her after their wedding at Saratoga during the races: "Sweet, I had a bad day today and I'll need your jewelry for a few days." She could tell when he was losing because although his face did not change, his voice grew flat. She told how he did not bother to watch the finish of a horse-race on which he won $800,000; how he arranged the hoax whereby Nicky Arnstein, for whom New York police had been hunting for six months, rode to headquarters to surrender in a touring...
...which he customarily celebrates a victory. Referee Eddie Forbes walked across the ring to the opposite corner, raised Ross's hand. First lightweight champion in history to win the welterweight championship as well. Barney Ross (Bernard Rossofsky) had his first fist fight when he was eight years old, grew up on Chicago's West Side where his father ran a delicatessen, has two managers, wears silk pajamas, fancies himself a songwriter...