Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stood in Lambeth Palace Road. Last week dignitaries of the Church left Lambeth Borough to the mob and to courageous London bobbies who fought (in some cases) for their lives. One bobby, cornered in a side street, had his face smashed and gashed by bottles before other bobbies could rush in and rescue...
...fight lasted seven hours. Twenty times battling bobbies put on a truncheon charge. To defend the Houses of Parliament, to keep the mob from crossing the river, London's brave bobbies were obliged for the first time to rush motor cars up to Thames bridgeheads and park them close together as an impromptu barricade...
...picture. The radio script did not reveal the solution to the mystery; radio listeners were invited to suggest conclusions for the story, for $6,000 in prizes. The prize contest disguised the real purpose of the broadcast: to create such suspense among the radio audience that all would rush to see the cinema. Advertisements for the trade called The Phantom of Crestwood "the picture that was presold to a hundred million," assured exhibitors that "all America wants to know who killed Jenny Wren...
...attack begins. The attackers fire a volley from behind trees, then throw away their guns and rush the defenders with lances. If the assault is successful, slaughter is indiscriminate-except for nubile girls, who are spared if they refrain from fighting...
...helped compose letters to enable girls to enter the Junior League, he has sat through innumerable suppers of scrambled eggs and sausages, he has worn many white ties, and seen countless suns rise slowly out of the district men call Back Bay. He has even, in the rush of his youth sat through one entire Vincent Show--later, in the dignity of his age, he departed he, half born. All this he has done, and may say with the Prophet, "Lord, I have seen...