Word: heights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France, who was a good friend and committee-mate of many of Manhattan's ablest socialites, took up the profession of helping other women make money. Daughter of a well-to-do Kentucky family, since girlhood she had speculated in the stockmarket, at the height of the boom was said to have piled up $6,000,000 profits. As an investment adviser, well-recommended by many a banker, she began speculating (successfully) for her clients. John P. Morgan's sister Anne, the late Elizabeth Marbury and Amelia Earhart Putnam were among them. Her big offices on Fifth Avenue...
...Christopher, patron of travelers, is generally portrayed as a tall, strapping fellow. In New York last week arrived a traveling priest who, in height at least, seemed a match for his venerated patron. He was Rev. Franciszek Skalski, 6 ft. 7 in., of Luck, Poland. Educated at the Grand Seminary of Luck (St. Stanislaus) and the Universities of Warsaw and Paris, Father Skalski is now professor of Modern Theology, Church History and Sociology at the Grand Seminary. He is in the U. S. to preach in Polish at Polish churches in the East. When he arrived, tall Father Skalski...
...comedy which can take its audience by storm is as rare as it is refreshing, but Mr. Osgood Perkins and Miss Sally Bates can safely be said to have achieved that lonely height in their current production at the Masque Theatre in New York...
...There is the scene in the London theatre during the Boer War. Some of those in the audience have sons or husbands "dying by inches" in Mafeking while a relief force is on its way in an attempt to raise the seige. The ballet and chorus are reaching their height when the manager stumbles out onto the stage and stops the performance to make the announcement that "Mafeking has been relieved." Pandemonium breaks loose. The effect is one of the greatest climaxes in motion picture history...
...height of the boom, the U. S. had become a 23,000,000-car nation. During 1930 and 1931, there was a slow falling-off in the number of cars in use. But during these years, while consumption of everything else was falling fast, the evidence of gasoline and tire sales showed that there was almost no decline in the consumption of automobile mileage. Thus there was reason to hope that there was no great surplus of cars on the road. Furthermore, there is a close relation between road-building and car-use; and new roads, bridges, tunnels continued...