Word: kissing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed Eleutherios Venizelos, "Father of the Greek Republic" (TIME, March 11 et seq.). In that bloody victory there should have been something for George II and he at once sent an agent to Athens to see about his Crown. But victorious Premier Tsaldaris was by no means ready to kiss the royal hand. He sent to the polls candidates for something he called the Government Party, while loyal old General John Metaxas put up Royalist Party candidates. Only nine Royalists were elected, while the Govern-ment Party won 285 seats out of 300 in the new Greek Assembly. Did that...
...around a lady's neck like a fur piece and is, thereafter, in a state of almost continual collapse. Abraham Lincoln is master of ceremonies in a scene on the banks of the Potomac in 1865 which features a uniformed tenor singing "There's Moonlight in a Kiss" to a girl in crinoline. When President McKinley manifests an interest in Hawaiian music, one Bert Lynn favors with some plaintive strumming on his patented device known as the Vibrolynn...
...class. Day before graduation, Midshipman Borries stepped before the regiment, received from Rear Admiral David Foote Sellers the Navy Athletic Association's sword as the Academy's outstanding athlete. Following graduation Ensign Borries had his epaulets pinned on, was presented with a big hug & kiss by "Gussie" Mae Hanley of Washington...
...more excitement in store for her. Her children are at school, her husband is concerned only with his paper business and the most momentous event of her day is the decision as to whether she will order turbot or sole from the fish man. An almost accidental kiss from her sister's fiance makes her marriage suddenly seem so woefully unromantic that Caroline goes into hysterics. The final curtain does not indicate that the Allertons' domestic problems have been solved but Caroline has learned the lesson of acceptance...
...spread to Chicago, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Spokane, Seattle, Nashville, New York and a dozen other cities. New ideas for cashing in on the scheme popped almost daily. One chain raised the ante to $1, another to $10. In Oklahoma recipients of chain letters were instructed to give a kiss to the person whose name was at the top "and surely he may find a true love among the 15,000-odd trading kisses." In Philadelphia, racketeers began hiring staffs to send out chain letters to "sucker" lists. Just starting is a "Send-Pint-of-Whiskey" series...