Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fort Worth, Texas, Mrs. F. H. Earle wrecked her automobile. The windshield shattered, cut off the tip of her nose. Minus the tip she was rushed to the hospital. A woman at the scene of the accident found the nose tip, took it to the hospital, physicians grafted it back on Mrs. F. H. Earle...
...policy to function as an "autocracy" if anyone wishes to use this term. The only extant Constitution of the Liberal Club was created in 1920 and was last amended in 1928 and until a new one is framed there shall have to be, I am afraid, a transitional period minus "authority...
...been clawed by a lion, chewed by a bear and laugh-bitten by a hyena, and, if ever kissed, which I doubt, such a favor would be attempted only by a horsefly or a tarantula. This clay model visage looks like a map of No-Man's-Land minus the compassion which even that scene would evoke. An earthquake must have been under way at the time of Flagg's conception . . . and when he first saw daylight a hurricane, which happened to be in progress at the moment, swept Flagg through a couple of barn doors...
...beating that Ponzi received thereafter-125 to minus 14-was the most severe on record in the championship. Three nights later, when Frank Taberski lost to him, Greenleaf was assured of a tie. His closest match was against young George Kelly of Philadelphia, nephew of Playwright George Kelly who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1925. Greenleaf's victory -126 to 119-gave him the championship prize of $1,200, in addition to his salary of $6,000 for three weeks' play, and one-sixth of the gate receipts...
...comedy Up Pops the Devil, which retains just enough of the original story & dialog to provide Frances Williams, Oscar Shaw, Jack Sheehan and Cecil Lean with an adequate background for their monkey business. Love in a Greenwich Village flat becomes love in a penthouse, with the Empire State Building (minus the new red light) instead of the moon looking benevolently through the window. Mild satire on the writing business becomes broad burlesque of the giant "Proxy" cinemansion. A minor character in the original play becomes Frances Williams and runs away with the show. She cuts up with Jack Sheehan, does...