Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simply must ride out with elephants galore, one elephant has always seemed enough to the Nizam. (see cut below). Of late he has given careful thought to whether the World's Richest Man need ride an elephant at all. Suddenly last week the Hyderabad State Railway Shops received rush orders to spend not a penny more than $500 putting streamlined fenders on a Rolls-Royce which gives only eight miles to the gallon and so has been run but 300 miles by His Exalted Highness during its career of 26 years in Hyderabad. While putting on the streamlined fenders...
...exploit was to leave her husband at Naples and go to Ethiopia whence she returned more popular than ever (TIME, March 30). Though Princess Marie-José's birth pangs came on prematurely there was time for her strapping Montenegrin mother-in-law, Queen Elena of Italy, to rush from Rome to Naples, but her more fragile mother, the sad-eyed, widowed Queen Mother of the Belgians, was unable to reach her bedside in time. When the babe was one day old he was carried on a satin pillow into the chapel of the Royal Palace where Cardinal Ascalesi...
...Aloysius Meyers, onetime bandmaster, had the American Legion hire a brunette, a blonde and a redhead, all young and pretty, to act as publicity building "hostesses" on a demonstrator model of the new vehicles. Said Vic Meyers: "They will be neat, sweet and discreet. To protect them in the rush hour we'll put bumpers on them, fore...
...felt that at last she could paint the way she wanted to paint. With charcoal she covered sheets and sheets with neat abstract drawings, sent them to a friend in Manhattan with specific instructions not to show them to anyone else. Anita Pollitzer, the friend, could hardly wait to rush the drawings to Dealer Alfred Stieglitz who promptly gave them an exhibition. Enraged, Georgia O'Keeffe went rushing north to protest: Stieglitz argued back. Nine years later they were married...
Like most forms of business civilization, fire insurance came late to San Francisco. A wild and wastrel town slapped together on the promise of the Gold Rush, it went up in flames six times between 1849 and 1851 with a total property loss of about $20,000,000. San Francisco gentlemen then organized volunteer fire brigades whose uniforms outdazzled those of the Vigilantes and whose members fought freely for the privilege of breaking the first window at a blaze. For twelve years these fraternities added to the excitement of a city where it was noted that "a man cannot walk...