Word: performances
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That far from being heedless, he had determined that the time had come to split his party, to purge it deliberately of its conservative elements, so that henceforward the New Dealers could close their ranks and perform their evolutions unimpeded by the presence of old-fashioned Democrats...
...stunt night the Anti-Mothball unit ceremoniously dumped bags of mothballs over the floor of the Community House, recited a funeral ode. Energetic Dr. Hart also found time to play left field in twelve games last month with his semiprofessional baseball team, Jack Hart's Collegians, perform 30 weddings...
...with her weapons after being photographed with them. The bow & arrow were wired together. The click of the camera was Diver Jump's signal to drop them. By no means a novelty, the "Diana Dive" was invented by Photographer Powell in 1932, when he had Diver Georgia Coleman perform it to publicize the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles...
...realism of Kid Galahad was achieved not by hiring a real fighter to perform in it, as Max Baer did in The Prizefighter and the Lady, but by giving a course in pugilism to the unknown young Los Angeles actor who had been picked for the title role. Handsome Wayne Morris, 23, whose athletic activities at Los Angeles Junior College (see p. 44) had been confined to football, basketball and fencing, trained for a month before shooting started. In the picture, his fight for the heavyweight championship was far more strenuous than most real heavyweight contests. It lasted a week...
...substituted, the biggest news story of 1937 (so far) last week finally reached its climax on Coronation Day in Westminster Abbey. The element of conflict, without which no news story is great, lay between the reverent, laborious effort of the British people to stage a tremendous spectacle and perform a solemn ritual without any hitch, harm or boggle, and the implacable forces of Chance, innocent or vicious, which might suddenly transform their great drama into farce or tragedy, as a little spark did last fortnight at Lakehurst...