Word: pace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most part, when the grindstone is still, the book is an entertaining tale of espionage and of resourcefulness in the conduct of a little advertised but important part of the war machine. MI-8, organized through Yardley's initiative, had its hands full in keeping pace with German chemists, who gave their spies silk scarves, or even silk-covered tuxedo-buttons, impregnated with secret ink chemicals which could be devolped with only one specific reagent. It was the Secret Ink Bureau which brought about the capture of Madame de Victoria, most dangerous of the German spies, who introduced high explosives...
...semifinals, the Moody adversary was Phyllis Mudford, smallest member of the British Wightman Cup team, who had beaten Sarah Palfrey of Boston in the third round. Wearing an eyeshade and an expression of appealing determination, she looked so eagerly incompetent that Mrs. Moody neglected to put customary pace on her shots after winning the first five games. Little Miss Mudford then played as tigerishly as she could, ran the score...
...weak backhand till she won, 6-4, 6-2. The match between Helen Moody and Betty Nuthall was nothing like the one they played in 1929, when Mrs. Moody decided the Wightman Cup series by winning 8-6, 8-6. Last week, they played more craftily, put less pace on their shots. Betty Nuthall won the first game at love, held her own till the seventh game when she made four double faults. This calamity broke the continuity of her game; she lost the set and match...
...shapely Faith Bacon open the proceedings with nothing on at all. Gladys Glad, still rated as the most perfect "Zig" ever discovered, was paraded after Miss Bacon, led out by handsome, hard-working Harry Richman, to whom few tired businessmen's wives are indifferent. Richman's duty was to pace the evening and loosen up laugh muscles, stimulate the tune appetite...
...have followed four years at a free running pace, Yet the labor...