Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...variations. Two years ago M-G-M decided that a story based on Rasputin and the Russian court would be ideal material to exhibit the varied talents of the Barrymore family. Ethel could be regal and throaty as the Tsarina. Lionel could leer and spit as Rasputin. John could push his delicate profile through a series of love scenes as a Prince Chegodiev. There was also a Princess Natasha with whom Chegodiev was in love. When Rasputin seduces Princess Natasha, Chegodiev proceeds to murder the monk in accord with history...
...Harvard may offer, which will be considerable. Leading the timber-toppers to the start will be Walter Merwin, who won the IC4A title in New York. The other Red and White entries will be Irving and Bennett. However, Harvard has two hurdlers in Johnny and Dick Hayes, who should push Merwin to the limit and perhaps to a new Tri record...
York City's Board of Education named Harold George Campbell, Deputy Superintendent since 1930. Though reputedly favoring another man for the job, Mayor LaGuardia was chiefly interested in getting a superintendent who would help him push through a plan for reforming the city's schools. When he heard of the Board's selection of Harold George Campbell the Mayor cocked his jaw, remarked grimly: "I hope he'll cooperate. ... He should cooperate. . . . He will have to co-operate." Said Superintendent-designate Campbell: "It goes without saying. . . ." A past master of co-operation must be a Scotch...
Persuaded to go home just before the shooting recommenced was Paraguay's "Runaway Grandfather," dauntless 65-year-old Jose Escobar who sneaked away from his family two months ago, joined his son at the front and fought for 21 consecutive days in Paraguay's Big Push which wiped out 15,000 Bolivians (TIME...
...contribution to 1934 motoring is automatic gear-shifting. You still have to put the car in low gear (with a push rod on the dash) but once in gear a few steel weights spinning like a governor on a drum in the rear of the transmission do the rest. When a speed of about 18 m.p.h. is attained, centrifugal force throws out the weights, engaging a small supplementary clutch which throws the car into direct drive (high gear). When the car slows down below 18 m.p.h. the weights drop back, the small clutch disengages and the car is automatically...