Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Douglas Mac-Arthur, onetime U.S. Army Chief of Staff who eight months ago removed his suave and handsome personage to Manila as military adviser to President Manuel Quezon (TIME, Sept. 30). Obviously pleased with the picture, gallant "Doug" MacArthur added: "Personally, ten years hence, I would not want to lead any force in ... invasion...
Last fortnight the arraignment in Detroit of twelve "Wolverine Republican Club" members for the murder of a young Catholic WPA worker (TIME, June i) gave the U. S. its first word of a nebulous, black-cloaked, Klan-like organization called the Black Legion. Following a slim lead the Press and police last week splattered over U. S. newspapers an incredible blood-&-thunder story which had liberals sincerely worried, psychologists intensely interested, the average citizen bewildered...
Fifty-two years ago the bright-eyed daughter of a Manhattan doctor took the lead in an amateur theatrical at Tuxedo Park, N. Y.'s Tuxedo Club, first U. S. country club. Inadvertently she did a double back roll when she was supposed to faint on a sofa. Last week at 80, Lady Charles Mendl, born Elsie de Wolfe, withered, bright-eyed Grand Old Woman of Franco-American socialites, was still doing back rolls, handstands and cartwheels in the garden of her Villa Trianon in Versailles to keep "young." And last week her prosperous, 31-year-old Manhattan decorating...
Turning point came next day, when Budge & Mako were leading Quist & Crawford two sets to one. At 4-5 and 15-30 on Quist's serve, Crawford sent a short lob into centre court. Instead of smashing it, Mako put it into the net. Quist & Crawford then pulled out the set. Budge & Mako got a lead of 4-1 in the fifth set. When Crawford & Quist managed to win this one also, and with it the match, 4-6, 2-6, 6-4, 7-5, 6-4, the result of the American Zone final, barring miracles, was certain...
...with the departure of the Queen Mary (see p. 17) at 3:15, the field got away smoothly. On a track baked rocky hard, following the Aga Khan's instructions, Jockey Smirke rode a waiting race. First Carioca, then Mrs. James Shand's Thankerton took the lead. Coming into the straightaway, big. grey Mahmoud, whom over-skeptical bookmakers, considering him a mere sprinter, had rated at 100-to-8, began to run. He crossed the finish three lengths ahead of Taj Akbar, most highly favored of the Aga Khan's three entries, with a new record...