Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brewer's Big Bosses Can't Run Over Me, and "they're learning the meaning as well as the rhythm of "If Your Heart Keeps Right." Related he: "I step up in the dark of the moon in a strange village. I got no guides, no gun bearers, except my little old trombone of the Lord. I slip into Walk in Jerusalem Just Like John, slow at first and then faster . . . and before long, without my asking 'Will you abide with me or sing with me?' they are doing a shuffle and a-humming, repeating...
...Irene Dunne was last week visiting Mme Curie's daughter Eve in Paris. Warner Brothers, who set the vogue for serious biographies in cinema, planned six more, including Danton, Joan of Arc and The Story of Beethoven, as well as their usual investigations of singing, dancing and machine-gun shooting...
...Separation of hemoglobin, blood's red coloring matter, from the blood serum would require 180 years by gravity sedimentation, but may be accomplished in six hours with DuPont's new Svedberg (1 electro-condenser, 2 atom gun, 3 molecular magnet, 4 centrifuge, 5 chemical reducer...
...Second Gun was Permanent Chairman Bertrand Snell, white-haired and white-suited. With the polished self-complacency of old-school oratory he recited the now ironic promises of the Democratic platform of 1932. He spoke under noonday heat to delegates who had spent a night with glass in hand, laboring in committee, or even in the hospital, like John Hamilton, who had had an infected ear lanced. But applause overpowered him after such salvos as "Already the New Deal has cost us the progress and prosperity of a generation!" Better than a passing mark went to Chairman Snell from...
...Third Gun. Herbert Hoover, still the Party's titular leader and now, after his public renunciation of Presidential ambitions (TIME, May 25), more popular than at any time since 1928, was welcomed at the Cleveland station by a cheering mob. He was kept in a political goldfish bowl until the hour of his speech. To prevent jealousy, forestall rumors of intrigue, no candidate or candidate's henchman was allowed to see him alone. In his rooms at the Hotel Cleveland he stood all day publicly beaming, greeting and pumping hands. Senator Vandenberg saw the ex-President...