Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left in Paris by the American Expeditionary Force, so he began promoting prizefights in a small way. He discovered Primo Camera, became a millionaire (in francs), is now impresario of the big Palais des Sports, the Tex Rickard of Paris. Last week he also had several truckloads of sand, a six-wheeled motor truck, a dozen unemployed Montmartre musicians, six chorus men, 100 lions. With these he staged a lion hunt. The black musicians brandished spears, whooped. The truck chug-chugged, blew up clouds of sand. The musicomedy lion-hunters fired many a blank cartridge. The lions yawned, played with...
...total of 151 was extraordinary over the Saunton Club's "joke" course. It is built over sand dunes with eccentrically narrow fairways and little slanted postage-stamp greens. The holes are not long but are often blind. The hazards are waist-high heather, bogs, bulrushes, traps like sand quarries, shore winds...
...Dubois' Bridge, Darlington County, S. C. When Shannon saluted Cash, the latter was looking at his wife's photograph and did not see or return the salute. At the count of one, Shannon fired and Cash felt a hot blow on his cheek—the sand kicked up by Shannon's bullet. At the count of two, Cash fired, saw a white spot against Shannon's black coat precisely where he had aimed, but Shannon stood firm. Cash was beginning to think he had been cheated when Shannon stepped forward, turned, staggered, fell dead. Around these facts...
Matter of fact many a wealthy German Jew sent his children, women and valuables abroad months ago when black-mustached Adolf hurled his famed warning (TIME, Oct. 6, 1930), "Heads will roll in the sand...
...fired by Chinese soldiers reputedly under General Ma's command. Japanese soldiers resisting the Chinese attack played a dig-in game, awaited reinforcements. When these arrived they proved to be two Japanese divisions hastily withdrawn from Shanghai. What correspondents called "Japanese nervousness" led to the piling up of sand bag barricades in Harbin streets, the stringing of barbed wire...