Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spanish junket last fall, their strong feminine sympathies were all on the side of the Loyalists. Fortnight ago, in a restaurant tête-à-tête with her good friend Mr. Winchell, Miss Hellman told a harrowing tale of mad nights in Valencia and Madrid when she saw non-combatants dodge into shell-pocked doorways to escape death from...
...Federal Theatre Project). Last week Broadway had its first chance to see Coriolanus since 1885. The play has never prospered in the theatre because, while it has high temperatures of rage and subnormal chills of scorn, it seldom strikes the 98.6° of ordinary human emotion. But what Broadway saw last week was a story which, though it lacks tremolo, shrills along as vibrant and masculine as a trumpet call...
...world indoor record (on boards) for 60 yards has stood at 6.2 seconds for 15 years. Famed sprinters like Jesse Owens, Eddie Tolan, Ralph Metcalfe have tried but failed to break it. But last week astonished spectators saw Benjamin Washington Johnson of Columbia, a little Negro who is long on medals but short on publicity, register three lightning flashes: the first heat in 6.2 sec., the semi-final in 6.1, the final in 6 seconds flat. To little Ben Johnson went the Rodman Wanamaker Trophy for the outstanding performance of the meet (Millrose Games) and round-the-world acclaim...
...thoughtful, dry man whose wife's temper was a scandal to the town; a law partner who brought his mean children to the office where they tore up the papers and urinated or the floor uncorrected; a practical politician who set out coldly to destroy Douglas when he saw Douglas as his rival for leadership of the West; a great talker who would start to work but waste his time telling stories and then walk home silently to a scolding wife. But he was also a local politician for whom great things had always been predicted, who was honest...
...biography in 1888, he leaned on a young collaborator named Jesse Weik to put it into publishable shape. The book contained enough of Herndon's insight and first-hand knowledge to make it a masterly record, but Weik picked and chose over Herndon's materials as he saw fit; the publishers revised the manuscript, and 70-year-old Herndon got only $300 for his share of the work and for his collection of Lincoln documents that afterwards sold for more than $300,000. Slandered as an atheist, a drunkard, a scandalmonger, a drug addict, Herndon died...