Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sole Crimson representative at the thirteenth annual East-West gridiron battle in San Francisco, Joe Nee. Varsity guard, saw service Saturday as the favored Easterners were held to a scoreless tie before 58,000 fans at Kezar Stadium...
Defended by Arthur M. Fitzgerald, able, liberal Springfield attorney, the miners could not deny the dynamitings but they vigorously denied responsibility for them. Behind the Government's prosecution they saw the heavy fist of John L. Lewis. Testimony showed that expenses of many a Government witness were paid not by the Government but by unknown persons, and the Progressives suspected John Lewis' United Mine Workers. One Government witness, a convicted murderer, could boast that John Lewis had intervened to get him paroled. Among the defendants there was also a convicted murderer. The Government produced a witness...
...station, crowds milled about cheering his arrival. As the official motor cavalcade rolled through the streets the crowds were held back not by lines of grim-faced troops with fixed bayonets as in Poland, Rumania, Yugoslavia, but by sport-clad sokols, members of Czech gymnastic societies. Foreign correspondents saw in this display a commentary on the democratic beliefs of Czechoslovakia, in sharp contrast to the strong-arm rule evident on the Delbos trip through the Balkans...
...Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, began to seem a group of humdrum stick-in-the-muds compared to the spectacular humanism radiating from the White House. During much of the short reign of Edward VIII those British subjects who admired what they considered His Majesty's spectacular humanism saw in this spirit something their whole kingdom should copy from the United States. During 1937, with Britain's Constitutional Crisis irrevocably and popularly settled, the broad revulsion of Britons has carried them back to renewed esteem for the normal British methods of conducting affairs, and naturally they have come...
...Kaiser's greatest flying aces and successor to the late great von Richthofen as commander of his famed squadron, once engaged in combat a Danish airman who was fighting for the French. "My machine-gun jammed," the Dane related afterward, "and when Göring saw I was defenseless he flew up alongside, waved a salute, and then soared away...