Word: pace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impeccable grey topper, King George walked the carpet, squiring Queen Mary amid lusty cheers. He was going to cele- brate in 100% English fashion by attending the races?for the first time since he went to Goodwood in July 1928. Very, very slowly, at less than a walking pace, the Daimler snailed across the courtyard, dipped like an infinitely cautious tortoise out the Palace gate, crept past cheering thousands massed along Constitution Hill ?Their Majesties bowing all the time...
...they are witnessing a clever tour de force and dramatic illusion dominates. Rikolnikoff proves to be "just like the rest" and Alice stabs him, unhappily forgetting to remove her scarf from his chambers. Her husband informs her that he has remarried. The telephone conversations become more frenzied and the pace quickens to the hotel detective's hammering on the door. Climax is reached when she eschews an extremely poisonous snake (which she keeps, oddly enough, in her boudoir) - thereby relieving it of all reason for its presence - and hurls herself down 18 floors to the street...
...Conditions followed the post-war situation with the falling off in sales at the Coop following the stock market curve, instead of the industrial curve, by which the business of retailers as a whole is affected. At the start of the crash, industry kept up to about its former pace, and it was not until the crash was well under way that the industrial curve took a decided downward...
...lost the first set, but took the next two. Bell was coming up to the net in the fourth?hazardous tactics against anyone so accurate as Hunter?and even in the backcourt his legs pumped so fast that he made gets that seemed impossible. For such short legs, the pace was hard, and while Hunter was obviously campaigning to make them cave in he seemed, like the gallery, to admire their staunchness. Once, after a hard return, Bell fell heavily in the forecourt and Hunter gave him a "sitter"?lobbed the ball so as to give him time...
John Endicott Lawrence '31, of Hyde Park, was yesterday elected captain of the Junior University crew. Lawrence, who prepared at Groton, was ineligible for crew last year but two years ago, as a Freshman, he stroked the combination crew in the Yale regatta. He is now in the pace-setting seat of the Jayvees and will lead them in their first race against Technology on Saturday...