Word: lookout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eddie is leaving this week from New York with his wife and child for a summer vacation in Europe. He expects to tour the continent by automobile and promises to be on the lookout for all the outstanding ball-toters that may be lying around loose. He may even pick up some plays that will fool the Princeton Tiger when that dangerous beast invades the Stadium next fall...
...last week (see above) Premier Doumergue announced: "I returned to office when I was called by President Lebrun and party leaders who said that civil war was about to break out. . . . Civil war risks bringing a yet more horrible thing-foreign invasion." Civil war is the politician's lookout, but foreign invasion is the army's job. Last week General Denain, new Minister of Air, calmly overrode the objections of diplomats against needlessly annoying Italy. and ordered ground broken for a vast air base at Rosidiano, Corsica. Built on the seashore, the new field will serve both land...
...Provincetown, Mass, last week many a sea gull crouched fast in a huge white trap set by God. Through field glasses a Coast Guard lookout watched one try to take off from an ice floe. Vainly it beat the air with its long wings; one webbed foot was frozen fast. Soon the gull gave up, bent its sharp, hooked beak, sawed off the trapped leg and flew away. Other Coast Guardsmen last week found many a thin pinkish gull leg stuck upright...
...popular, Oregon's Charles Linza McNary prepared to call the first meeting of Republicans, both Progressives and regulars, since he succeeded to the minority leadership. Said he: "All Republicans look alike to me." At the last minute, this gathering was postponed. Idaho's ursine Borah, on the lookout for a saddle horse to replace crippled "Governor" and superannuated "Idaho," notified Oil Administrator Ickes that big petroleum producers were squeezing little ones, that while the oil code increased costs to producers $125,000,000 a year, $486,000,000 in price increases were being passed on to consumers. With...
...Chiselers," "Old Guard lookout men," and "Rugged Individualists," were his principal targets of attack on his barnstorming trips out of Washington to sell NRA to the country. He can whip almost any audience into a fine frenzy of exaltation for the President's recovery program and, adopting a familiar Wartime trick, can make it appear downright unpatriotic to block NRA's advance. Yet for a man who lives by invective and abuse of his foes, General Johnson is surprisingly thin- skinned to criticism of himself and his cause...