Word: leaden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Your Toes (Warner) is Rodgers & Hart's romping 1936 Broadway musical success turned into a movie that gets its leaden foot in its mouth at the outset, spends the rest of the time coyly failing to get it out again. The story concerns one Phil Dolan 3rd (Eddie Albert), called Junior, who drops out as the juvenile in a hoofing act to write the Great American Ballet. He meets a Russian ballet troupe, falls in love with its gorgeous premiere danseuse (Zorina). When timid Junior, pinch-hitting as a black slave in the Russian ballet, gets scared and runs...
...fringe of the floodlighted tee, then continued to wham-all through the night and all through the day. Though six out of ten balls landed on the green (131 yards away), he failed to get another ace in 2,289 more attempts. After he had lifted his leaden arms for the 3,094th time, Scoffer Wagner admitted defeat. "After you hit the green, I guess it's just luck," he sighed-discovering by painful experience what most golfers have long known...
...every Russian's way of saying he means to put something off till tomorrow, the next day, for ten years. Seichas seemed to have taken over the leaden-footed Anglo-Soviet pact negotiations last week as talks between British special negotiator William Strang, British Ambassador Sir William Seeds and Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov dragged on day after day, added up, as far as the anxiously waiting world could see, to nothing...
...months. Generalissimo Chiang and his wife inspected the areas bombed in the earlier raids. The power plant was functioning again. A Harvard graduate named Theodore White went to his room in the Canadian-French mission school. The Associated Press correspondent stepped out of his office. Suddenly, out of the leaden sky, at 6:30, 27 Japanese bombers swept in on Chungking from the north...
...visitors saw a 9 by 9 by 16 in. leaden casket, graven with abbreviations unmistakably referring to "Cristoval Colon, Almirante" (see cut). Inside it when last opened were once-human bone & dust, a bullet presumably fired into Columbus during some fracas before he sailed for the New World...