Word: hails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus in four short months John Dillinger had become a famed desperado, a bad man no jail could hold and police everywhere were hunting him. In November they caught him coming out of a doctor's office in Chicago but he drove away through a hail of bullets. He began raiding small-town police stations in Indiana for arms and bullet-proof vests while his bank robberies multiplied. Then with his plunder he dropped out of sight until last January when officers arrested him and three of his gang, quietly vacationing in Tucson, Ariz. (TIME, Feb. 5). Chapter...
Tall, ruddy, good-humored Professor Ames started out to be a lawyer, turned to art, ended up on Dartmouth's faculty 15 years ago. Last week the Press was ready to hail him as a new Hero of Science. But Professor Ames resisted any such public acclamation. In the first place, he insisted, other members of his Dartmouth staff deserved as much credit as he. And, ''It was research and that's all about...
Original "I fought in the War as a soldier in the ranks. I know what war means. Terrible memories of those years when whole generations of youth of so many countries were laid low by the hail of lead have not been cancelled from my mind...
Instead of attempting a journalistic study of bus-travel, regularly punctuated by comic touches, Director Frank Capra and Robert Riskin who adapted Samuel Hopkins Adams' story, fused the two. When Gable and Colbert hail a Ford for a lift the driver sings them a tuneless paean on the pleasures of hitchhiking. When they stop for gas, he tries to drive off with their battered suitcase. The quick flow of comic incident through It Happened One Night reaches its fantastic conclusion in a wedding at which the groom arrives in an autogyro while the bride runs away...
...records for cold were broken in New England where temperatures as low as ?56° were reported. In Boston it went to ?18°, in Manhattan to ?14°, in Philadelphia to ?11°. Florida had snow and hail (which killed two cows). Dwellers on islands off the North Atlantic coast were icebound and had to be fed by airplane. Temperatures recorded included ?4° at Lynchburg, Va., ?6° at Washington, ?8° at Richmond, ?8° at Atlantic City, ?26° at Buffalo, ?12° at Toledo, ?34° at Sault Ste. Marie, ?10° at Duluth...