Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...allegedly by agents of Cuba's detested President Gerardo ("Butcher") Machado. If trouble should break out at the funeral it would give the Army a chance to shoot Reds. President Grau officially refused the Communists permission to build the obelisk, but the Army let Red bricklayers rush it to completion overnight...
...Earl Carroll & Rufus King; music & lyrics by Edward Heyman & Richard Myers). During a matinee of the eleventh edition of the celebrated Vanities, a chorus girl abruptly stops kicking her neat legs and begins to scream. In the orchestra pit the music dwindles discordantly to silence. Directors and managers rush out to investigate. Cause of the disturbance is a pretty girl who, cradled on a rack of scenery pipes, is soon let down on the stage and found to be dead. Although attired in one of the production's costumes, she does not belong to the company. Bruised and burned...
...summer prospectors have been scouring the Dominion of Newfoundland for gold. Prospectors and syndicates have staked hundreds of square miles of claims. Following reports of rich strikes, small steamships and airplanes have been carrying eager men and supplies into the wilderness in gold rush fashion. Excited, the Dominion government hired Professor Alfred Kitchener Snelgrove of Princeton, and F. W. Foote, Manhattan mining engineer, to make an expert survey. Last week the Government released the first section of their report. Messrs. Snelgrove & Foote said that it was not unlikely gold would be found, added-like a douche of cold water-that...
Died. John Milton Dodson, 74, long-time (1901-24) dean of medical courses at the University of Chicago and dean of students at Rush Medical College, one-time editor of Hygeia; of uremia; in Chicago...
...seem to get loose, and Cecil Smith was hitting wild. Hopping was everywhere, his red helmet charging into every scrimmage, sometimes entirely surrounded by Western players. As the white wooden ball shot out of a scrimmage, the ponies would prance up & down for a moment of suspense, then rush headlong together. In the sixth the East was leading 8 to 7 when it added two goals. In the seventh Rube Williams, boiling to get loose, rode his pony full into Hitchcock. At the same moment Hopping rode into him. Hitchcock and Hopping rode off after the ball. Alone, Williams reeled...