Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captain Rusty Greenhood will not meet any important opposition in the dive, but will have an opportunity to roll up a good point total for the New Haven papers to copy. So far this year, Yale's Endweiss has been doing more of this sort of thing than has Greenhood...
...Francisco. Many of the cases are caused by consumption of improperly cooked frankfurters and hamburgers which are made of mixed pork and beef, said Dr. Nelson. "The average 'hot dog,' " he explained, "is barely warmed through before being slapped into its mustard bath in the yawning roll, while rare hamburgers are preferred by many persons...
...spots-the toughest theatre crowd in the world to please-are the backbone of every Broadway first-night audience. An hour before curtain time, a mob of babbling celebrity-chasers and autograph hounds, aged ten to 70, starts lining up outside the theatre entrance. As. taxis and limousines roll up, the audience's audience gurgles and gasps ("It's Elsa Maxwell!", "It's Freddie March!", "There's Dorothy Parker!"), then surges forward to nail its prey...
Inside the theatre, lobby and aisles are jammed. Chinchilla arrives to snub ermine and mink. Amid the babel of voices can be heard the high British squeak, languid Southern drawl. Continental roll of rs, marcelled New Yorkese. Down in front, as she has been at nearly every Broadway first night for over 20 years, sits elderly, fragile Mrs. Rita Katzenberg...
...poem. It was the first English periodical to publish the work of Marcel Proust, Paul Valery, Jean Cocteau, many another since-famed major European writer. The list of its contributors-James Joyce, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats. Robert Graves-is an honor roll of contemporary letters...