Word: laterally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours later University of Pennsylvania's Gilbert Hollandersky gulped 25 goldfish, topped them with a steak dinner. Then University of Michigan's Julius Aisner swallowed 28, Boston College's Donald V. Mulcahy 29 (with three bottles of milk). Thereupon Albright College's Football Captain Mike Bonner gulped 33 without a chaser. Outside Boston's Opera House, Northeastern University's Jack Smookler raised him three-gulped...
...Western Reserve University and who is also getting bald, has spent many of his adult years studying "emotionality" (inherent susceptibility to emotional stimuli). Some researchers, such as Behaviorist John Broadus Watson, have tried to show that emotional endowments are all the same at birth, that differences appearing later are due to environment...
Finally a car stopped. On the other side of the bayou, another pulled up. The road was blocked. A few drenched survivors of the eeriest U.S. highway tragedy of 1939 joined Truckman Lewis on the road. Later divers and wreckers took his truck and ten pleasure cars from the receding stream, recovered 14 bodies-men, women and one infant. Some had smashed through windows to drown in the flood. Others had been trapped where they sat. One woman had died half out of the back window of a sedan which had landed on its nose on the bayou bottom...
...sensation of the Castles' debut a year later is adroitly prefaced with sequences showing Vernon Castle teaching his new wife his routine and then failing utterly to impress Fields; the genesis of the tip-toe Castle Walk, designed not to disturb the occupants of the Paris apartment below their own; and their meeting with Maggie Sutton (Edna May Oliver), who gets them their first engagement in return for a dinner...
...most determined mothers of the period. Mrs. Rogers, by this time a reporter on the Fort Worth Record and the highly efficient business manager of the Fort Worth symphony orchestra, quit her jobs after Ginger's Charleston victory, helped manage the tour which was first prize. Four years later, after the customary interludes of night-club engagements and vaudeville acts, Ginger Rogers reached Broadway as ingenue star of Girl Crazy. During the 45-week run of Girl Crazy (at $1,000 a week), Ginger Rogers made five pictures at Paramount's Astoria Studio. When Girl Crazy closed...