Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...necessary for me to go to Detroit," said Madam Secretary Perkins, looking anxiously down her nose. Cause of her anxiety was an all-night fracas between police and strikers in the General Motors strike at Flint, Mich, which had sent a score of casualties to the hospital (TIME, Jan. 18). Not anxious but indignant was Strike Leader Homer Martin who had flown to Washington. Said he: "The blood-spilling in Flint by hired Hessians of General Motors is a demonstration of what Mr. Alfred Sloan means by collective bargaining." Newshawks on the scene, however, confirmed General Motors' contention that...
...afternoon performance starts at 4 o'clock, and the evening showing being at 8 o'clock. A piano score of appropriate music for the period when the films were released has been obtained to lend the proper atmosphere...
...caused by the failure of several potential crawl experts to report. This means that many of the regulars will have to double--some even triple and quadruple--duty in the meets. Luckily, most of this year's top-notch swimmers are capable of bearing this burden, but the final score of more than one meet may hinge upon the perfect conditioning of these multiple-duty...
...future, agreed to take on the job. He called in Novelist Werfel, who was completing his best-selling Forty Days of Musa Dagh, to do the book. He called in Composer Weill, who had finished his music for Dreigroschenoper but had not yet dreamed of Johnny Johnson, to score the spectacle. Designer Norman Bel Geddes, long finished with Lysistrata but not yet started on Dead End, was hired to set the spectacle. Of all the episodes in The Eternal Road's tortuous history, those concerning its scenery are the most prodigious and painful. Director Reinhardt and Producer Weisgal originally...
...hour and a half later staggered Vines and Perry. Recuperating from grippe before the match, both were so ill that by the time reporters reached it, the locker-room looked like a clinic. Vines had a fever of 102°. Said Perry: "I'm going to be sick. . . ." Score of the match, in which neither played anything like as ably as he can, was 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 for Perry...