Word: major
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fair attendance picks up, a few of the showmen may yet make out, but already two major enterprises have folded, the $300,000 Cuban Village and the Savoy blackface show. Broadway's shop talk, an amalgam of arithmetic and intuition, last week held: 1) that unless Fair attendance looks up, the amusement area as a whole may lose $5,000,000 before closing; 2) that any profits worth talking about so far had been rung up by three concessionaires: Frank Buck's monkey mountain, Jungleland; Life Saver's Parachute Jump; Billy Rose's Aquacade. Housed...
...shortage that last week, in a Munich medical journal, patriotic Surgeon Karl Faber advised his colleagues to "wash their hands several minutes longer in order to economize on [dispense with] valuable rubber gloves." Other warlike economies suggested by Dr. Faber: 1) substitution of cloth gloves for rubber except in major operations; 2) laundering of bloody bandages and compresses which are ordinarily thrown away; 3) use of small-sized towels in operating on children...
...superiority is his trainer-driver, sandy-haired, peppery, 40-year-old Hugh Maynard Parshall, called Doc because he has a D. V. M. from a veterinary college. Winning "hoss" races is nothing new to Doc Parshall. A comparative youngster at a job where 20 years' experience is a major requirement, he has been the No. 1 U. S. harness-racing driver for eleven of the past twelve years, has won 763 first places since 1925 (including the Hambletonian twice), has never raced without a kitchen match in his mouth...
...Donald won the first major-league game he pitched. Then he won another and another and another. Baseball fans began to notice the Yanks' rookie. Skeptics said he was just lucky: he was aided by the heavy hitting and smart fielding of his mighty teammates. But after he had won nine games in a row, even the toughest skeptic had to admit that the Yankees were not making Donald but that Donald was helping make the Yankees. Last week, trying for his 13th consecutive victory, Rookie Donald, whose outstanding assets are a sneaky fast ball, a gimlet...
Author Lincoln lives in suburban Villanobly went off to London; one of his daughters drifted into marriage with the handsome, idle son of retired cotton magnate Sir James Ashwell. The Major himself, seeking a good housekeeper, married a large-boned, clumsy spinster of 37 who dismayed him by producing twins. Author Whipple's eventual solution, after using the Munich crisis in a genteelly British way to resolve her novel's problems, combines the Major's estate, Sir James's money and the assorted talents of all the characters, turns Saunby Priory into an up-to-date...