Word: salvos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sped toward the runway leading to their own cages. The crowd that packed Manhattan's cavernous Hippodrome one night last week was up in its seats, streaming toward the exits past the array of jabbering freaks in the lobby. And ducking into the wings with the last salvo of applause still drumming in his ears a small man, in a shirt and breeches that had once been spotless white, shouldered through a clutter of clowns, girls, circus hands and hangers-on, scurried up a spiral staircase to his dressing-room. He was streaked and spattered with muck from head...
...After two years in England Togo got back to Japan to find that his superiors had let no barnacles grow on their keels, either. Before he was 40, Togo was captain in an up-&-coming navy. In the Sino-Japanese War (1894-95) it was Togo who fired the salvo that was Japan's declaration of war. But the first incident that got him international headlines was not pretty. He halted a Chinese troopship, ordered the soldiers to take to the boats, sank the ship when they refused, made no attempt to rescue them. At the Battle...
...both occasions in sarcastic and, for him, spectacular fashion. Amid a loyal salvo of applause, he began: "This issue of America is not a battle of phrases, but a battle between straight and crooked thinking. ... I shall confine myself on this occasion to one hard practical subject-the fiscal policies of this Administration." The Herbert Hoover his listeners saw was not the grey-faced, discouraged oldster of 58 who drove down Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue and out of public life on March 4, 1933, but a vigorous figure of 61 with rosy cheeks filled out to their rotund...
...Well, it's like this," answered Irven Travis, young Moore School instructor who designed the machine. "Suppose you're firing a salvo from a battleship...
...last week General Hugh S. Johnson was well launched in print on the series of articles he started to write for the Saturday Evening Post the moment President Roosevelt accepted his resignation as NRAdministrator. In an impatient opening salvo last fortnight the redoubtable General raked the whole New Deal front, advising President Roosevelt to alter or reverse his fiscal, monetary, tax, labor, industrial, relief, agricultural, foreign trade and recovery policies. "I firmly believe" wrote he, "that, if steps were taken tomorrow to put the monetary and borrowing policy of the Federal Government beyond the shadow of doubt, this depression would...