Word: hails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elected by a vote of 367 to 216. Famed during the War as a Commander of the late Baron von Richthofen's Flying Squadron, Speaker Goering mounted the tribune with militant jerkiness, replied with a Fascist salute to the salutes of Fascist Deputies who bounded from their chairs shouting, "Hail Hitler...
...over his head like a pugilist entering the ring. When he returned to Manhattan two days later, Tammany Hall was ready for him. Two bus loads of ward heelers were dispatched to Grand Central as the core of a crowd which swelled to thousands. A band marched up playing "Hail, Hail the Gang's All Here." All in white, Peter P. Cappel, head of New York Jewelers Exchange Inc. and a generous Democrat, brought to the station three pretty girls with baskets of roses which they sprinkled under the Mayor's trim little feet. From the hooraying throng...
...have included the Comtesse de Janze, the former Alice Silverthorne of Chicago, for shooting her lover (whom she later married) and Mrs. Ruth Putnam Mason, author and actress, for passing worthless checks. On the site will be built a new clubhouse for the Societe des Auvergnats, whose members all hail from the old province of Auvergne. Most prominent of Auvergnats is former Premier Pierre Laval...
...degree). Having studied engineering, he earned his first pay writing music for the old Kalem cinema, then got a job as art critic. The Russian Revolution lured him to Petrograd, made him editor of the Russian Daily News, then drove him out of the country. Until critics began to hail his spare-time writing, Author Komroff survived by hack-writing for women's-wear and movie magazines. Bland, sensible, he says: "The best authors are those that are dead...
...position to prove that Howard Phillips is innocent. The warden uses a convenient telephone to tell Preston Foster that his friend Phillips has been proved innocent, will be reprieved if they all surrender. Foster agrees for the sake of the picture's plot, walks out into the guards' hail of bullets. Most of the harsh ironies of the play, such as the scene between the "Killer"' and the prison chaplain, are omitted...