Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Then he saw the sea outside Gloucester. Somebody had said something to the gods of wind and wave; they were in a fury. Salt spray was lashing over the deck, the bow dug through green water as it plowed along undecided whether to be a boat or a submarine. One sail had blown to shreds and he struggled to get up a trisail, a little handkerchief of a sail, in its stead. The din of the wind and the water dulled his hearing. Then he saw the wind and waves and water receding as be sneaked into Boston harbor...
...help keep the butter from sticking to the bottom of the kettle, a handful of copper pennies was thrown in the butter and the stirrer would move them about over the bottom of the kettle and when they were retrieved when the kettle was emptied you never saw such lovely bright pennies as they were. Brighter I'm sure than when they came from the mint and none of us got sick from eating that apple butter. Our favorite way of eating it was to put it on nice brown buckwheat cakes and pour over all plenty of rich...
...such distinguished Legionnaires as Herbert Lehman and Fiorello LaGuardia, local Governor and Mayor. The day warmed. Spotters posted down the Avenue from the reviewing stand pulled manifest inebriates out of line before the notables could see them. Hours passed, 100 Army planes droned overhead, the crowds heard 493 bands, saw 800 floats, gasped at a Negro Legionnaire who marched on two padded stumps cut off at the knee and another who kept up with the procession in a wheelchair. Typical sights: Chattanooga's Drum and Bugle Corps in old khaki trench uniforms, spattered with prefabricated mud; autos disguised...
...best hated men in Spain. Miguel Aranda first came to Oviedo in 1934 with the rank of colonel and orders from Madrid to help put down a revolution of Asturian socialists and anarchists against what they saw to be a swiftly developing fascist dictatorship. With ruthless Foreign Legionaries and Moors, imported into Spain for the first time in its history, Aranda did his work well, causing the death of numberless men in a few weeks...
...from vestal restlessness, piano-playing Brother Dudley (Arthur Macrae) spouts Noel Coward and badgers stuffy Brother Claude (Richard Warner), who builds houses and does setting-up exercises. Clouds gather over the breakfast table when Gladys, the maid (Moya Nugent), is found crying near the sausages and Frankie reports she saw Claude coming out of the girl's room. Two acts and a fortnight later, just in time for the arrival of much-discussed and dreaded guests, the domestic weather settles fair...