Word: rollered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tree-sitting. In 1930 it was dance marathons. In 1932 it was Walkathons. Last week it appeared possible that in 1936 the U. S. appetite for preposterous endurance might take an even more eccentric form: the Roller Derby. In Chicago 25 young men & women were roller-skating in circles around the Coliseum. They had been doing so since Christmas Day. It was the fourth Roller Derby held in the U. S. since last August. Crowds averaged...
Like Bank Night, Roller Derby is a copyrighted name, the product of an inventive cinema salesman from the West Coast. Leo ("Bromo") Seltzer, 32, worked for Universal Pictures Corp., until five years ago when he staged the first commercial Walkathon in Denver. He promoted 22 more, grossed $2,000,000, retired because he felt that Walkathons were becoming vulgar. He inaugurated the Roller Derby in Chicago last August, held two more in Louisville and Kansas City. Roller Derby teams are selected from the Transcontinental Roller Derby Association, formed by Promoter Seltzer last year to help popularize his new pastime...
...machine racketeers, gives a fair imitation of Chaplin's famed characterization of a peewee battling gaily against overwhelming destiny. The last third of the picture is a chase in the classic Keystone tradition, starting when the racketeers, dressed in policemen's uniforms, pursue Eddie Pink around a roller coaster, and ending when Eddie and his Greek bodyguard (Parkya-karkus) find themselves trapped in a captive balloon. Eddie escapes by falling into an acrobats...
Premier Laval, being his own Foreign Minister, could not make himself his own scapegoat. He is the engineer of no political steam roller but an Independent. During 1935 the French Chamber, in which there is no solid majority, has been on the point of overthrowing him for one reason or another nearly every week, not because he is unpopular but in the ordinary workings of French politics in which Premier after Premier is ground exceedingly small. Last week there were beyond question in the Chamber more than enough Leaguo-philes, Devaluationists, Socialists, Communists and people-who-simply-do-not- like...
White also dates from the century's turn, the first White being a steam-powered passenger model built by a son of the late Thomas H. White, who founded White Sewing Machine Co. after the Civil War and got into transportation by way of roller skates and bicycles. White abandoned automobiles for trucks in 1918. During the War, White made its all-time production record of 15,000 units, most of which went to France. Management was in the hands of the founder's sons until 1929, when Walter White was killed in an automobile accident. Coca-Cola...