Word: growing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lunatic is Stuart Erwin. He thinks that he is Napoleon and his lugubrious schizophrenia prompts him to describe Claudette Colbert as "La Duchesse" and to murmur 'Waterloo!" with the pensive intonations of a hoot-owl. His resourceful guards recapture him by singing "La Marseillaise." Meanwhile Claudette Colbert's squeals grow less indignant...
This year is Goliath IIs fifth in captivity, and as winter waned at his Florida quarters he began to grow listless, sluggish. He would not eat. His cavernous trumpetings became dismal, froggy croaks. Trainers, seeing the remaining half of a $10,000 investment shedding weight at the rate of 10 Ib. a day, called doctor after doctor, but no physician's hand could feel that flapping pulse, no stethoscope could reveal the disorder beneath a hide thick as a truck tire. Last week Goliath II still lay in Sarasota and the Circus went on without...
...west, against the command of Velasquez, the Spanish Governor. Across the Gulf, in the teeth of Velasquez' organized opposition, they work their way to Cempoala on the Mexican coast. Here the weary men, learning that all of the ships but one have been destroyed to prevent their deserting, grow mutinous. Cortes, bidding them to go back if they will, quiets them with his taunts: 'Why should you waste your souls in the west! You are young: 'Tell them you left us here by the last water 'Going up through the pass of the hills with...
...cities grow and their suburbs thicken, city merchants find it increasingly wise to take their wares to the suburbs for sale. New York and Chicago particularly have become surrounded by rich buying areas far from Fifth Avenue and State Street. Last week Fifth Avenue lost more trade. Opened with much civic and social pomp was a large new store of Franklin Simon & Co. in Greenwich, Conn. Not the first nor the second New York store to open a branch outside the Metropolitan area (B. Altman & Co. has branches in White Plains, N. Y. and East Orange, N. J.; Best...
...writes his most native American, least Greekish tragedy, leaving sexual perversion almost entirely out. Its terrors are more Amerindian than Greek ?the terrors of a diminishing race under Nature's relentlessly observant, semi conscious eye. The outlines of the Amer ican continent and of its troubled in habitants, grow colder and clearer under Poet Jeffers' western-starry light...