Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commander Masaharu Homma of the Tientsin Garrison, an old hand at talking out of turn, warned that the Japanese Army might have to "reconsider appropriate steps." Japan's Army spokesman told a fantastic cock-&-buller about a Chinese plot against the life of U. S. Ambassador to China Nelson Trusler Johnson. The Japanese press said it was time to stop "courting favor" with the U. S. In private, statesmen loudly complained that Franklin Roosevelt was trying to wreck the "New Order in East Asia...
...Boston Arena, 7,000 wrestling fans (twice the usual number) stood on their chairs as the Angel trod up the aisle. In the ring, Bacigalupi whanged the Angel's cowcatcher jaw with a barrage of forearm wallops. The Angel only growled, waded in, got a headlock, a full nelson, a head scissors, an armlock, and then the hold the fans were waiting for -his touted bear hug. He simply crooked his cordwood arms around Luigi's vast circumference, hooked his stubby broomstick fingers behind, squeezed. Bacigalupi wheezed and bellowed while his breath lasted, then the Angel grabbed...
...recommendation of chunky, art-patting Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, who is not only president of Manhattan's lively Museum of Modern Art but a director of Creole Petroleum Corp., one of Standard's Venezuelan subsidiaries, Standard Oil last summer sent Artist Bennett to Venezuela. Bennett's commission was to paint whatever struck his fancy. Plenty did, from golf courses to jungle camps. So pleased with his adroit jottings are Sponsors Rockefeller and Standard Oil that his water colors will be sent on a year's tour...
Other editors' "musts": Guy Lombardo's orchestra (Jukebox Champion Glenn Miller fifth, Swingster Benny Goodman seventh); Arturo Toscanini for symphonies; Bing Crosby for popular songs; Nelson Eddy for classics; Songstress Frances Langford, Sportscaster Bill Stern, Newscaster Lowell Thomas, Studio Announcer Don Wilson. Favorite dramatic program: Cecil B. DeMille's Lux Radio Theatre; favorite children's program: Nila Mack's Let's Pretend; favorite quarter-hour: Fred Waring's. Outstanding 1939 star: blind British Piano Wag Alec Templeton...
Another brilliant match in the 128 pound class saw Ted Schoenberg pull his match out of the fire by pinning his man with his favorite three-quarter Nelson after about five minutes of wrestling. It happened so fast his opponent barely knew what happened. Captain Bill Daughaday and Dick Thomas were both decidedly predominant in their matches, particularly the former, but neither of them were able to catch their cautions opponents off guard and take them any more than by decisions...