Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unquestionably cashhe kidnappee must lead China into an immediate war with Japan (TIME, Dec. 21 et seq.)arrive in ostentatious military regalia. The Generalissimo changed to civilian clothes and flew ahead to Nanking, followed two hours later by the Young Marshal in a cheap Chinese cotton-lined robe, veritable sackcloth & ashes. The Generalissimo was met by China's elderly Puppet President Lin Sen and 200,000 cheering Nankingese. The kidnapper drove quietly through back streets to settle down as the house guest of Ransomer T. V. Soonganding out thousands of words evidently concocted by mutual agreement to dispose of China...
...hire Genevieve (Glenda Farrell) to excite J. J.'s passion, hoping the rise in blood pressure will kill him. But Genevieve falls in love with J. J., divulges the plot and J. J., seriously ill, backs the show with Norma, still unable to sing or dance, playing the lead...
...front at the half mile, Sangreal at the three-quarter. Sangreal was still ahead coming into the stretch when Jockey Peters, moving up on Goldeneye, made his bid. For a split second, it looked like a camera finish. Then Sangreal weakened and Goldeneye drew away-to a six-length lead at the wire, with Sangreal second, Ariel Cross third...
Last week it appeared that Wah was even more interesting inside than outside. Following the lead of other museums, Director Herbert Eustis Winlock had ordered X-rays made of the Metropolitan's mummy collection. The plates showed that inside its wrappings the mummy of Wah was wearing a necklace of spherical beads, apparently gold or silver; another necklace of larger beads, apparently of silver; a third one of amethyst, carnelian or faience and a fourth which appeared to be of cylindrical stone beads. Other ornaments were a sort of bib and two wristlets, apparently of faience; three scarabs, apparently...
...full Palestine moon rode one evening last week over Tel Aviv, exclusively Jewish city, the Hebrew Sabbath ended and thousands of Jews began to move toward the Levant Fair Grounds. There they packed the Italian Pavilion to capacity to hear great Arturo Toscanini lead Palestine's first civic orchestra through its first performance. Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope, the British High Commissioner, brought with him a party of notables. Open-shirted German immigrants gathered in rowboats on the adjacent Yarkon River. A few Arab fishermen paddled quietly toward shore, listened respectfully outside the pavilion walls which are still pitted...