Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hockey) of eleven forwards would come through if only on freshness. In the first game in Chicago, the Canadiens mustered speed for what seemed a dying effort, blocked the rushes of Cook, Adams, Gottselig, won 2 to 1. Then the Black Hawks hit their stride. In two games their rapid substitutions kept fresh men on the ice all the time and these men in their cubistic black & white jerseys skated parabolas around the tired Canadiens. With the series at 2 to 1 in favor of Chicago it seemed almost certain that the fourth game would also be Chicago...
...million dollars. Norma Shearer is a working girl who says, "A girl may kiss and ride on as well as any man." Yet when Neil Hamilton, her journalist lover, companion of an illicit weekend in Mexico, says a casual goodbye to her, she is seen in one of those rapid sequences indicating a shattering of feminine morale-broken scenes in which Miss Shearer dances in the arms of successive admirers, always to the accompaniment of a shrill, annoying laughter that is the keynote of the picture. The dialog is wretched. Most tiresome shot: Robert Montgomery's half-filled cocktail...
...directors who did the Mitten bidding at a glance or a nod, to the end that the nefarious schemes hatched at before-dawn breakfasts, might, in their opinion, have the stamp of legality," were denounced last week by Judge Harry S. McDevitt who thereupon ordered the Mitten-managed Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. into receivership. Mitten Management, Inc. is headed by Dr. Arthur Alan Mitten, son of the late famed Thomas Eugene Mitten, transit expert...
...most serious task now facing all civilized governments is the task of maintaining sufficiently stable social conditions in the midst of rapid change...
...their non-academic capacity, but refers to the scientific racket recently exposed at Yale. Fortunate in the possession of a blind scholar, equipped with the necessary intelligence, when the weekly quiz came around the sly Yale boys just counted the taps on his typewriter and with rapid manipulation of their fingers were able to decipher the opinion of the blind Homer on the subject at hand. The resulting standard of infallibility was, of course, of short duration for the authorities took steps to quell such intellectual insubordination. Too much perfection in a Yale man, they realized, was a dangerous thing...