Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Demagoguery." Surrounded by guards, a big, benign, mustached man slipped into the Great Hall of Cooper Union in Manhattan, modestly took his place on the platform before an audience of 1,000, smiled and applauded graduates' speeches. At length Trustee J. Pierpont Morgan rose, picked up a pile of diplomas, handed one to each of the 128 graduates, gave him a quick handshake, a smile and a bow. When President Gano Dunn asked him to speak, Banker Morgan bowed to the applause, smiled, shook his head...
...constitute an interesting variation on the Hollywood war-picture formula but are scarcely enough to give the picture top rating, either as document or as drama. Typical shot: Fonda and Madeleine Carroll, having taken refuge in a cellar during an air raid, deciding they are permanently entombed when a pile of loose bricks blocks the windows...
Thirty-seven doughty sons of Lowell invaded Soldiers Field yesterday after-noon to pile up 72 1/2 points to win the first annual octagonal House track meet. The Bellboys scored in every event to outdistance Eliot, second with 32 1/2 points, and Winthrop third with 28 points...
...cheers next day from song-starved critics. The show is hardly as good as all that though for the marriage of the season's most ethereal stage bride, Producer Wiman has provided a shimmering trousseau reputed to have cost $125,000; several wardrobefuls of beautiful bright clothes, a pile of lacy, hand-embroidered stage sets by Jo Mielziner, plenty of Rodgers silver tunes...
...took another splinter from the pile of odds and cuds and sat down again. There was no hurry. It would take them a quarter of an hour yet to get the cradle cleared. He was excited--yes, there was no denying that. Launching, like birth, is a supreme moment...