Word: rest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this attack was upon a well-prepared, straight-shooting, determined people facing front. It was at least 2,000,000 trained men and 5,000 airplanes against 200,000 trained men and 150 airplanes, but the tough-fibred Finns provided a test for the Red war machine which the rest of the world watched intently. From the outset it was apparent that the Reds could not match the Nazis at Blitzkrieg...
...Eddie Shore bought the minor-league Springfield (Mass.) Indians with $40,000 of his savings, planned to play with the minor-leaguers himself. Because Boston was loath to lose him, Eddie Shore agreed to play with the Bruins once a week (at $200 a game), manage the Indians the rest of the time, put off donning his Indian suit until next year...
Swingin' the Dream (by Gilbert Seldes & Erik Charell; produced by Erik Charell in association with Jean Rodney). With Shakespeare a hit last season in musicomedy (The Boys from Syracuse) and The Mikado a hit in swing, it was dollars to doughnuts that Broadway would not rest until it had swung the Bard himself. Last week at Radio City's huge Center Theatre it swung him high & wide, turning A Midsummer-Night's Dream into a lavish jitterbug extravaganza. Shifting the scene from Athens to New Orleans around 1890 ("At the Birth of Swing"), it displayed clarinet-tooting...
...Sunday nights, speaking the slick impertinences of Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, the Chase and Sanborn Hour traditionally has the ear of perhaps a third of the nation, largest radio audience in the U. S. But Charlie appears only twice (a total of about 15 minutes) during the hour: the rest is usually orchestra music, songs by Contralto Dorothy Lamour and Baritone Donald Dickson, effervescences by guest stars and a master of ceremonies. Between Charlie's turns at the mike, the interest of his vast audience wavers. Many tune in on other programs, others mix drinks, woolgather, miss commercials until Charlie...
...short rest, and you may be advised to "take 20, easy," which means over a quarter-mile at blotter than hair-speed. Then, gracious Mr. Ulen, in his most condescending manner, will "permit" you to swim ton laps with your feet strapped-- to build up the arms. The first two always feel grand. Sprint drill may follow, which means several full speed 25's or 50's, and after that Half sometimes advises ten more "easy" to loosen you up again. The practice is concluded by some of the boys kicking a few laps and others just jumping...