Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...duty at Buckingham Palace last week-end were two gauntleted motorcyclists from the Army Service Corps ready to rush dispatches to King Edward's week-end hideaway, Fort Belvedere, the instant they arrive instead of waiting for the evening messenger, whose duty it has always been to carry the day's dispatches to the King out of town. In deference to Minister of Transport Leslie Hore-Belisha's safety campaign (TIME, Sept. 10, 1934), the motorcycle messengers were expressly ordered to obey all traffic laws. Edward's new motorcyclists will be listed as King...
...spasmodic attacks on the Works Progress Administration last month, West Virginia's blatant young Senator Rush Dew Holt pointed with special scorn at WPA's privy program in his State, intimating that WPAdministrator Hopkins was more interested in that than in feeding hungry children (TIME, March 23). As Dr. A. J. Kemper. county public health officer, uprose to dedicate the 100,000th privy last week, four bumpkin students from nearby Salem College, Senator Holt's alma mater, whizzed by in an automobile, tossed corncobs at his feet. Unperturbed, the tall, grave physician proceeded to point out that...
...telephone calls. Cinemadirector Rouben Mamoulian, a fellow Caucasian, entertained her royally each night the company spent in Los Angeles. Aboard train Dancer Lichine keeps a daily log for the company, mourns when there is no scandal, no petty jealousy to record. In their few hours of leisure the dancers rush for a cinema, a 5 & 10? store, a cut-rate druggist to buy their cosmetics. During rehearsals they subsist on milk, eat ravenously when a performance is over. Aboard train they will buy anything from ham sandwiches and chocolate to Coca-Cola "widout...
...idea that college boys are "too yellow to go to war" (TIME, March 30)? My impression: the courage of our college youth is equal to that of any group in the U. S. Mr. Van Zandt surely knows that all the members of his honored American Legion did not rush to the colors in 1917. Louis A. BLEDSOE Superintendent of Schools Sorento...
...Universal) is a picture which cinemaddicts have been anticipating almost since the start of talkies. Blaise Cendrars' novel-about the Swiss immigrant who settled on land grants in California in 1839, founded a private empire called New Helvetia, lost it when nuggets in his millstream started the gold rush and spent his last years begging Congress for restitution-came to the attention of Universal in 1928. The studio bought it as a vehicle for Jean Hersholt. When Hersholt left to join Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the picture was postponed. In 1934 Director Howard Hawks worked on the story with Screenwriter...