Word: prop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Turning to leave the House immediately after he ended his speech, Sir Samuel, blinded by his tears, half missed his footing on the stair and reeled. Sympathetic M. P.s rushed to prop him up and out amid an ovation fit for the King...
When, three months ago, dynamic little Darryl Francis Zanuck and his partner, Joseph M. Schenck, merged their flourishing Twentieth Century Pictures with huge, debt-laden Fox Film, Hollywood had its doubts as to what the result would be. Would Zanuck, struggling to prop up the sagging bulk, suffocate beneath it? Or would he bring it back to life? Last week, with one picture (Metropolitan) released (TIME, Oct. 28), Producer Zanuck showed three more products of his peculiar art. Hollywood scanned them for answers to its questions. The pictures...
Football candidates who are expected to report in the spring include two prop school captains, F. F. De Rham of St. Marks and R. T. Gannett of Milton Academy, and N. J. Lupion, the brother of a Crimson captain...
...crop of ends is unusually large this year, and among them is the only Conant Prize Scholar of the squad, Ralph Murphy, who hails from New Albany, Indiana. Other outstanding men are Winthrop Jameson, who prop- ped at Exeter, and Tony Staruski, a former star at Hyde Park High...
...Hard-boiled reporters felt that hulking Premier Flandin had made several tactical errors in his last appeal to the Deputies. His entire speech had been dramatic and emotional, from the pedestal to prop his broken arm to the hints of dire plotting on the part of U. S. correspondents-hints that no other French official could substantiate. And sympathy is an emotion that French Deputies find hard to sustain for more than an hour. Flandin had referred directly to his physical handicap, to the secret rage of his opponents, had stung their vanity by insisting that he alone was capable...