Word: lead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letter accompanying the circular was the following paragraph: ". . . Barton's two books interest and aid the rich and powerful; they help any cub salesman to get orders for shoe polish?and to work on principles that lead him toward riches and power...
Schaefer, former champion, son of famed "Wizard" Jake Schaefer, one of the greatest experts of billiard history, led and increased his lead. Late in the match he saw Cochran score 196 points in a run; was not impressed. Schaefer is the only player alive who has run out a tournament match "from spot," not permitting his opponent (Hagenlacher, 1925) a turn at the table. Cochran was not unduly proud; once in championship play he ran 407 points. Neither played as well as he knows how. Cochran, stocky, abrupt, lost the world's championship to slim, catlike Schaefer, 1,500 points...
Conductor Bernardino Molinari of the Augusteo Orchestra, Rome, arrived (on the Conte Biancamano) in Manhattan where later in the season he will appear as guest conductor with the Philharmonic Orchestra. He stayed a day making arrangements with his manager, granting interviews, and set out for St. Louis to lead the city's symphony in fifteen concerts...
...Warsaw, Poland, a bandleader waved his baton, a violinist scratched his fiddle, other members of a jazz-orchestra made their respective sounds. For 33 hours and ten minutes the bandleader lead his determined performers through one jazz song after another, an interval of 45 seconds distinguishing each song from its successor. Then the bandleader stopped, mopped his face, and claimed that his orchestra had gained a record-the record for playing longer than any other jazz-orchestra...
...three prizewinning poems, and the 97 next best now appear in a book: The Spirit of St. Louis. Five hundred dollars, the first prize, was very appropriately awarded to child-prodigy Nathalia Crane. She expressed 14-year old enthusiasm in a thoroughly competent narrative poem, The Wings of Lead, pointing, in lines that have a bright startling thread of childish ingenuity drawn through them, to ". . . The beauty of a courage that can raise the wings of lead." Second prize went to Poet Thomas Hornsby Ferril, third to Poet Babette Deutsch. Poet W. R. Benet's Lindbergh is adroit...