Word: inge
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well aware, Major General Smedley Darlington ("Old Gimlet Eye") Butler, U.S.M.C., has two congressional medals. Last month he defended his right to the second one by loudly protesting aspersions cast by the Haitian Minister to the U. S. (TIME, May 4). Last week, the State Department hav-ing accepted the Haitian Minister's equivocal apology, General Butler took time by the forelock and refreshed the country's memory of how he won his first medal. His immediate audience was a group of grocers assembled in the same Philadelphia Elks' Club where General Butler...
...gymnasium shot in which a training fighter swings wildly at his spar- ring partner's chin for several minutes in an effort to knock him out; Armstrong playing solitaire on a table set up on the floor of the gymnasium; fighters wearing their bathrobes on the scales while weigh- ing in; Ayres, after having won a fight, talking into a microphone which is held several feet away from him instead of close to the ropes, against his lips; Ayres wearing a full dress suit in a nightclub, a sartorial liberty which even Gene Tunney in his most precious period never...
...realize that even a political machine can get gummed up with too much politics." World-Telegram Colyumist Heywood Broun began organizing a mass meeting "in answer to the average citizen's question: 'What can I do?'" The Daily News thought that the municipality's only salvation lay in draft- ing Alfred Emanuel Smith for Mayor...
...Although she takes very seriously, professionally, impersonally her job as music-hall dancer and she and her partner are on a mutually unaffectionate business basis she wants someone to love. When gawky, rich, but sincere Max Dufferein- Chautel presents himself, suffused with gawky and sincere emotion, at her dress-ing-room she is merely annoyed, brusquely kicks him out. He gets himself properly introduced, evinces impeccably respectable intentions, dogs her with his wistful and persistent hope. In spite of herself Renee begins to thaw...
...Most encouraging among these is the great growth in technical skill in connection with the design and traffic facilities and the control of traffic movement. This was demonstrated during the year 1930 by the organization of the Institute of Traffic Engineers, a national engineer- ing society with several score members professionally engaged by cities, States or private organizations in the relief of traffic conditions...