Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were not needed to keep Rock & Tom's huge hoofs pounding, tearing, tossing up clods in their mighty struggle. The load moved, it kept moving. When ponderous Rock & Tom brought up with their snorting nostrils against the board fence, their load was well past the 27 1/2-ft. mark and the crowd was roaring approval. For setting a new world's record. Rock & Tom's owners were awarded an extra...
...final, with the dynamometer (pull-measuring device) set at 3,900 Ib., a new high mark, the equivalent of a rolling load of 130 tons or of nine monster plows cutting 14-inch furrows, the East's Flaxie & Dan on their first trial pulled hard, started the load, got it half way down the 27 1/2-ft. strip they had to cover. Then they suddenly stopped, mistaking an overexcited spectator's shout of GO! GO! for WHOA! WHOA...
...Touch of Brimstone (by Leonora Kaghan & Anita Philips; John Golden producer) is a genuine three-dimensional portrait of a complete, ruthless egotist. Mark Faber (Roland Young) got into show business simply to make a fortune. To him the theatre is just one more racket he can beat. In the course of beating it he reduces his office staff to hysteria, seduces his virginal leading lady, cuckolds his deserving brother-in-law, demoralizes his amiable wife (Mary Philips). Faber manages to commit all this emotional mayhem with unbounded arrogance, callousness and a certain amount of charm which is conveyed by witty...
...newspapermen are notoriously an improvident breed, one shining exception is 35-year-old Talcott Williams Powell, son of an Episcopal rector, godson and namesake of the first director of the Pulitzer (Columbia) School of Journalism. Talcott Powell, anxious to make his mark in the world, has kept a performance chart on himself ever since he was a cub reporter on the New York Sun. Graphing his status from year to year, he projected his curve upward to assistant on the city desk of the New York Herald Tribune, upward to the general managership of the Middletown (N. Y.) Times Herald...
...church in English. Then the new Cardinal cabled home: "My blessings to Little Old New York." That, eleven years later, the Pope chose his "dear little brother" Hayes to send to Cleveland rather than Boston's imperious O'Connell, Philadelphia's autocratic Dougherty or Chicago's cheery Mundelein may mark his approval of the ways of the U. S. Church, as exemplified in a kindly man who says: "I am conceited enough to think that no better American lives than myself...