Word: opener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...skeptical TIME of Oct. 23 reported that Antonio Longoria "... laid himself wide open . . . was a bit too specific...
...People also laid itself wide open...
...Japanese luxury steamer Terukuni Maru went down in 45 minutes off Harwich, near the grave of the Dutch Simon Bolivar, last fortnight's most tragic victim (85 dead). No lives were lost on Terukuni Maru nor on the Italian Fianona of 6,660 tons, which was blown open under the chalk cliffs of Dover but, with tugs, made the beach. The modern British destroyer Gipsy, after rescuing and landing three Nazi airmen who had flown over London's outskirts and abandoned their shot-up plane at sea in a rubber boat, was returning to her patrol off Harwich...
Thanksgiving week saw three comedies open on Broadway, all of them bad. Aries Is Rising (by Caroline North & Earl Blackwell) featured a lady astrologer, suggested that the producers themselves were guided by astrology in putting it on. Ring Two (by Gladys Hurlbut), George Abbott's third production of the season, was penny amusing and pound silly. I Know What I Like (by Sculptor Justin Sturm) displayed a huge statue by Columnist Westbrook Pegler which stole the show. It may also have inspired it. "If Peg can do sculpture," Sculptor Sturm perhaps told himself, "I can write a play...
Between classes, Miss Campbells pupils kept fairly busy reading, writing or drawing, occasionally got up to go outdoors to the privy. Miss Campbell kept a sharp eye open, once remarked: "I see so many drone bees instead of busy bees...