Word: nextly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...savings, planned to play with the minor-leaguers himself. Because Boston was loath to lose him, Eddie Shore agreed to play with the Bruins once a week (at $200 a game), manage the Indians the rest of the time, put off donning his Indian suit until next year...
Last week Hatfield Broun put an end to his feud with McCoy Howard by signing a new contract with the New York Post, to take effect day after his World-Telegram contract expires next week. The Post, in place of Scripps-Howard's United Feature Syndicate, will distribute Broun's column to other papers. A sportswriter before he became a columnist, Broun will also turn out stories on baseball and racing for the Post...
...wise citizen of Paris wants to know what Hitler and Stalin are thinking, what will be the next fantastic episode in an improbable war, he reads what Geneviéve Tabouis has to say in L'Oeuvre, then waits for the exact opposite to happen. For Tabouis is one of the most readable and unreliable reporters of secret political maneuvers, behind-the-scenes diplomacy in all Europe...
Last week Tabouis, out on a limb as usual, flatly predicted a peaceful settlement of little Finland's unwilling controversy with Soviet Russia. Next day a Soviet army crossed Finland's frontier (see p. 23) and Soviet planes dropped bombs on Helsinki. Tabouis followers were neither angry nor surprised. They had long ago learned to take her utterances with a shakerful of salt...
Only once has Tabouis recanted. Last year, on the eve of a visit to Paris by Britain's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Foreign Minister Lord Halifax, Tabouis wrote that they had decided to give Germany the French island of Madagascar, off the southeast coast of Africa. Next day she retracted her statement. To her denial L'Oeuvre's board of editors added a note in angry capitals: "IT IS DESIRABLE THAT FRENCH PUBLIC OPINION SHOULD NOT LET ITSELF BE TROUBLED BY RUMORS SPRINGING ENTIRELY FROM PURE FANTASY...