Word: roading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...middle of the whittled little nation. Along this strip Adolf Hitler will build one of his Autobahnen, which will run from Breslau in German Silesia south to Vienna and thus provide a direct and short motor connection between the eastern part of Germany and the recently-acquired Ostmark.* The road, to be completed in 1940, is the first section of a great highway which Germany intends to push through the Balkans into Asia Minor, via Belgrade, Sofia and Istanbul, as part of her drive to the East. Along the Czechoslovak strip, police, customs and traffic control will be in German...
...gamecock, the coast-to-coast cocking fraternity ranges from millionaires to moochers. Top crust are the socialite members of exclusive cock clubs who hold tournaments on their estates for a pedigreed handful of their friends. Bottom crust are the bands of shady promoters who operate in sinister back-road barnyards or city hideaways- sometimes traveling in a circuit with a portable pit that folds up as simply as a bridge table. But 90% of the U. S. cocking fraternity are plain, everyday citizens...
Once a decade, by some freak, an Abie's Irish Rose or a Tobacco Road bobs up and refuses to sink for several seasons. Once a decade there may be an opening night, like that of What Price Glory? in 1924, when an audience stamps, shouts, weeps from excitement, and refuses to leave the theatre. Once a decade some young playwright who was yesterday unknown, not merely succeeds, but overnight arrives for good & all. Eugene O'Neill did it in the early twenties...
...finally landed odd jobs in stock. Once his father went to see him act, commented afterwards: "You're not very good, you talk too fast." Then, simply by walking in and asking for it, one day Clifford got a road-company job with Manhattan's Theatre Guild...
...incident occurred on Prescott Street, in back of the Faculty Club, when the Dunster House resident who was going to a class, saw an old women trying make her way across the icy road. A Harvard man in the best tradition, he rushed over to her and offered he his manly...