Word: scene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...until a Cambridge hook and ladder unit clamored onto the scene that the flames were localized in a spare scrap basket. No statement has since been issued as to the extent of the damage. The apparent loss consisted of one waste container...
...pitiable little scene passed almost unnoticed amid the triumph of MONDISM. Famed A. J. "Emperor" Cook, the fighting Laborite who precipitated the General Strike, rose and began to address the Congress with torrential passion, crying that trade unions exist not to cooperate with employers' associations but to wring concessions from them...
...Author. Louis Bromfield is one of those who live in Paris the better to get perspective on the American scene, but his origins are all-American. Born (1896) in Ohio of Boston-Maryland stock, he went to public schools, and to the Cornell Agricultural School. During the War he served with the French Army, in numerous sectors from Switzerland to the North Sea. He then resumed newspaper jobs in Manhattan, wrote up current theatre, worked on a music magazine...
...least one telegram from a former editor stating (we hope not ambiguously), 'Your work was unbelievable.' To this we may add that he gave the best back view of a city newsman ever presented in a ten-line part and in a five-minute big emotional scene with a ham sandwich...
...very facetious humor. We did not believe that the cartoon had actually caused any excitement. . . . For we have been in this business a long time. We were established May 10, 1883, and forty-five years have taught us a great many things; and as we visualize the scene in the Chicago Daily News office when our telegram was received, it went something like this...