Word: hurl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mainichi, Nichi-Nichi and their Asahi (Morning Sun) rivals are smaller than Metropolitan U. S. dailies, contain less advertising. Otherwise, due largely to Publisher Motoyama's pioneering, there is little essential difference. Even Mutt & Jeff, Min & Andy Gump, Smitty, Jiggs & Maggie hurl pots and tongue-lash each other in Japanese. One printing handicap the Japanese have been unable to overcome-lack of a simplified alphabet. Ideographs necessitate much handwork. A picturesque oldtime method of news transportation still lives in Japan. Newshawks and photographers in the field often send back copy and film by carrier pigeon. Besides morning & evening editions...
...Chautemps, taking his cue from his friend Herriot, went about Paris insisting that France must pay, tried to form a Cabinet on that basis. He raised such hopes in Washington that Congressional leaders were persuaded by the State Department to hurl no speeches at France which might make the Premier-designate's task more difficult. With an effort Congressmen & Senators bottled their spleen. Thus aided M. Chautemps proceeded to?fail. He found plenty of French Deputies rueful over what they had done but no majority ready...
Throughout the country typewriters, pounding at top speed, translate buzzing dots and dashes into blazing headlines, panting reporters hurl tons of paper on city editors' desks, whining presses reel off miles of extras onto the streets. Maine must know how Utah went, New Mexico must tell Virginia. America is crying for news. It is Election Night...
...tentative lineup: Lowe Cassedy, Wolcott Le.; Barrows. Rogers L.t.; Cullen, Healey, l.g.; Casey, Cassle, Lockwood, c.; Schumann, Crane, r.g,; Drinkwater, Kidder Baucroft, r.f,; Werner, Cassedy, Wolcott, r.e.; Peter Whitney, a; Locke Sherman Pescoselide, l.h.b.; Gleason. Leonard, Hurl but, Littlefield v.h.b., Waters Barrett...
Herex: "The cast, though accidentally chosen, was splendid for type. . . . The star, Dorothy Pollak, pretty enough to get by if she knows her lines, and simply but smartly dressed in the funeral finery she wore on the sad occasion when she tried to hurl herself into the late Joe's grave (see earlier installments...