Word: opener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anyone with a sincere desire to keep out of the limelight, the advisability of making a solo flight from the U. S. to Europe is open to question. Whether, having made the first non-stop solo flight from the U. S. to Europe in 1927, Charles Augustus Lindbergh thereby justified the U. S. press in considering that his private life was public property is open to question also. Last week, the sad and puzzling problem of the No. 1 U. S. hero's relation to the No. 1 U. S. institution of hero-worship was raised once more when...
...vision of some Holy Roller prophet. In this apocalyptic land everybody-the prospectors and stagecoach drivers, the medicine men, outlaws, sheriff, the hero with the silver-plated stock saddle-is a gentleman of color. No attempt is made to explain how so much pigment got all over the open spaces. It is there, palpably, by a whim of the Almighty, indulged with the liberal connivance of one Jed Buell, an independent Hollywood producer who learned his art from Mack Sennett...
...Washington last week a Negro boy and girl giggled in ignorant embarrassment because a plastic surgeon was about ready to bind them closer than wedlock. A year ago Clara Howard, 13, emptied a lapful of peanut shells into an open fire. Her apron caught fire and she was hospitalized with terrible first degree burns. When she was discharged she had no skin left on her torso, arms and neck. Scars held the flesh of her arms to the flesh of her sides. She could not turn her head because the lower part of her chin had grown to her chest...
...with the bed shoved up out of the way. Big disadvantage appears to be that at night the bed has to be moved out of the way before the toilet can be used. The roomette's door slides back into the wall and may be locked, or left open, steamship fashion, with a curtain drawn over the opening...
...where, with 350 of her 600 crew sent on part pay to Germany for seven weeks, North German Lloyd officials figured the work could be done cheaper. On the sun deck $100,000 is being spent to provide 500 cruise passengers with a 20 ft. by 28 ft. open-air tiled swimming pool with dressing rooms and showers for 50, a dance floor 20 ft. by 60 ft. raised three feet above the deck and lighted from below. The whole top deck between bridge and forward funnel, will become a "Beach Club" 150 ft. by 50 ft., with railside refreshment...