Word: saws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were still aboard early this week when the City of Flint, flying the Swastika, still manned by a Nazi prize crew, put into Tromsoe, Norway, seeking supplies. Nazi Consul Herr Henrik Jebens boarded her, saw the Americans, talked to the Germans. Uneasy Norwegian authorities furnished no supplies, four hours later escorted her out to sea again...
...first "to find or create a job for himself," then try "to find or create a job for 23 others." Last week Legionnaires Miller and Carr reported results: eight jobs found, two in sight. Pennsy's President Martin Clement heard about the Legion, praised the clerks' initiative, saw that several (including Mr. Miller) got their old jobs back...
...funnel, changed her name to Alf. They got jittery watching for British warships, put a time bomb in the engine room to blow up their prize rather than surrender her. After eleven days they arrived, not in Germany, but at Tromsö, Norway, flying a German flag. Authorities here saw through Flint's disguise, let the prize crew take fresh water and debark their British prisoners (with whom Mr. McConnochie escaped), but insisted that the U. S. flags be repainted before the ship cleared for Murmansk, Russia...
...into ad-Liberty Hall. He says anything that comes into his head. When he is well wound up, My Dear Children may bumble on till after midnight. Once a fire engine sounded in the street. Sang out Barrymore: "I hope they get to the fire in time." Once he saw Ned Sparks in the audience. Walking to the footlights and pointing, Barrymore shouted: "There's that old bastard Ned Sparks." Once he couldn't hear the prompter in the wings, yelled: "Give those cues louder!" Once he said to the heroine: "I'll take you to ," couldn...
...Terrible Tommy and his teammates, Fielding Yost and his Homecoming guests-including fabulous Willie Heston (1901-04), whose spraddle legs once scored no touchdowns-wriggled in among the 54,000 football fans in Michigan's magnificent stadium. They saw the vaunted Michigan backs-(Harmon, Kromer, Westfall and Evashevski)-trot onto the field and in less time than it takes to say Evashevski make sausage meat of a not-so-bad Yale team that had beaten Army and Columbia earlier in the season...