Word: olympias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three days later at Olympia, Zioncheck's bride, a onetime PWA stenographer named Rubye Louise Nix, sat down at a typewriter in the office of Washington's Secretary of State, filled out her husband's declaration of candidacy, which he signed. Reason: His mother wished him to. He announced he would run not as "a personality" but as a man "who stands for certain principles." Two days later 17 local railway union groups endorsed him on this platform and Representative Zioncheck rousingly declared: "I still feel that even if all those things they say about...
...sounded across the arena. On a flagpole, the Olympic Flag-white with five interlocking circles representing the five continents-was slowly raised. Outside the stadium, guns boomed. Atop the staircase at the East gate appeared the last runner of the 3,000 who had relayed the Olympic Flame from Olympia in Greece. He scampered down the steps, paddled across the arena, trotted up the west stairs to a platform, dipped his torch. The Olympic Fire flared up from its bowl and the Games were under...
...were the last stage in a concentrated year-long ballyhoo which made the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles, loudest previous sports event in history, seem, by comparison, as quiet as a race between two trained fleas around the brim of a felt hat. Climax was the Torch Relay from Olympia to Berlin which started fortnight ago, after the sun's rays had been used to kindle a fire in the ruins of the Temple of Zeus. At Paracin, Yugoslavia, last week, the flame went out when a runner got a defective torch which burned only two minutes. Faced with...
Disagreement came when the store's department heads saw Macena Barton's $1,000 Modern Olympia, a reclining, nude young woman with scarlet toenails and a small, black crucifix. The model, Cati Mount, had been one of the attractions at Chicago's Century of Progress, but the Executive Committee well knew that the picture would offend their pious, Roman Catholic boss, tall, white-haired Dennis Francis Kelly, who was trusting his subordinates to keep things in order while he vacationed in California. Another shocker was the angry Ration Box and Crucifix, in which Artist Adrian Troy expressed...
...Lake Shore Drive, Chicago youths, adolescents and gallery-goers found that Modern Olympia had been given the show's most prominent position, at the top of the stairs leading to the second floor. Ration Box and Crucifix could be seen on the third floor, leaning against a radiator...