Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...abdication backing of Mrs. Simpson was due almost entirely to her delight in annoying her Scottish sisters-in-law, but she has frequently let it be known that she would never spend a night under the same roof with "that woman" (Wallis Warfield). At week's end news of a compromise of a sort emerged...
Last week in Los Angeles a Roehm & Haas customer named E. G. Lloyd behaved more spectacularly. Calling in news photographers he pounded Acryloid eyeglasses with a machinist's hammer...
...curing of Mrs. Vanderbilt's crotchet and its consequences were easily last week's biggest sport news. One of the top sport events of 1937 will be the yacht races for the America's Cup, off Newport, starting July 31. For the past nine months, the America's Cup races have been a matter of formal correspondence, long-winded argument about rules, scale-drawings and fabulously costly boatbuilding. For the next three months all this will be replaced by sailing...
After a 15-month buildup, with an exciting interlude last winter while a new hero was substituted, the biggest news story of 1937 (so far) last week finally reached its climax on Coronation Day in Westminster Abbey. The element of conflict, without which no news story is great, lay between the reverent, laborious effort of the British people to stage a tremendous spectacle and perform a solemn ritual without any hitch, harm or boggle, and the implacable forces of Chance, innocent or vicious, which might suddenly transform their great drama into farce or tragedy, as a little spark did last...
...British people won, and their witnesses numbered not less than 300,000,000, easily the largest public ever served on a spot-news story by the combined forces of the world press...