Word: lock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty years ago the title of "world's most famous musician" belonged to a shockheaded Pole named Ignace Jan Paderewski. Flame-haired Virtuoso Paderewski was the greatest pianist of his time and one of its most lionized personalities. Women swooned at his concerts, pursued him to beg a lock of his long red-gold hair. Kings and cabbageheads applauded him. Even among people who never went near a concert hall "Paderoosky" was a name to conjure with...
...moved lock, stock and barrel, not to mention old-fashioned banjo clocks and row on row of used suits, to 1109 Mass, Ave. Above his now store hangs a neon sign bearing the legend "Max Keezer--College Clothes...
...Exchange would agree to any reform that was suggested, then evade it on a technicality. With typical boldness, Douglas decided that his best defense against the Exchange's kick was an offense: he bluntly offered it a choice between self-reform or SEC's taking over lock, stock & barrel...
...radio's automatic switch is a pendulum which swings fore and aft. A heavy jolt swings it forward into its lock, starts the set sending its mechanical cry for help. Operated by storage batteries, the small transmitter repeats its call steadily for two or three days, is audible to radio direction finders in searching rescue planes. If a safe but bumpy landing should put the signal into operation, a red light on his instrument board warns a pilot to release the pendulum switch...
Divorced. Cinemactress Sigrid Gurie, Flatbush, Brooklyn, N. Y.'s "Norwegian Garbo"; from Thomas W. Stewart; in Los Angeles, Calif. Grounds: "My husband slapped me, threatened to thrash me, and said he would lock me out of the house...