Word: happenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wings skated wearily up & down the ice through four such periods of 20 minutes each, without breaking the tie. While the streets outside the Forum emptied and the city grew dark, while spectators alternately dozed and woke with hoarse shouts when it looked as if something might happen, the players went on grimly playing. In the middle of the fifth overtime period a drowsy spectator got hit by the puck. He was revived. Play went on. The period ended scorelessly. Exactly 16½ minutes later, a Detroit second-stringer named Modere Bruneteau took a pass from his teammate Hector Kilrea...
...only sound tradition about the Grand National, 4½ miles over the hardest course in the world, is that anything can happen. Just before Davy Jones took the second fence from the finish last week, one of his reins broke near the bit. The part of the crowd of 250,000 that was standing near the finish saw the Hon. Anthony Mildmay steer his father's horse desperately over the jump, but on the flat again Davy Jones veered sharply, ran off the course...
...Playwright Sherwood got a belly-full of fighting in the last War, is now afraid that another Armageddon is forthcoming. In the printed version of Idiot's Delight,* there is evidence that he had misgivings about his work's presentation before hostilities actually began. "What will happen before this play reaches print or a New York audience," says he in a postscript, "I do not know." That the nations of Europe still remained too scared or too smart to fight when Idiot's Delight appeared on Broadway last week must have gratified Robert Sherwood, Idealist, no less...
Biggest question mark confronting both business and the stockmarket was not the extent of the spring rise but what will happen after the rise has run its prosperous course. By that time the business atmosphere may be thickening with campaign politics. There is no sound historical evidence that Presidential-election years are worse for business than other years. But both business and the stockmarket will be almost pathologically conscious of politics...
...that machine. It will do the work of 50 to 100 men. Thrown on the market in the manner of past inventions, it would mean, in the share-cropped country, that 75% of the labor population would be thrown out of employment. We are not willing that this should happen. How can we prevent...