Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the beginning, General Johnson still composes his pieces (in his Manhattan hotel suite, his Washington apartment or his Bethany Beach cottage) while pacing the floor. Faithful Secretary Frances ("Robbie") Robinson sets the harangue down on paper, helps the General whip it into literary shape later. It is then wired to United Feature's Managing Editor William Laas, who deletes the outright libel and graver profanity, sends the copy smoking on its way to the presses...
...operation with the French Navy and use of its bases in the Mediterranean by the British fleet. Last week the decisions reached fortnight ago at Nyon for naval co-operation by Britain and France to patrol the Mediterranean and destroy "pirate submarines"* (TIME, Sept. 20), were whipped into final shape at Geneva by the two foreign ministers chiefly concerned, Britain's Anthony Eden and France's Yvon Delbos. They used the Hotel des Bergues, where many of the League of Nations' most vital decisions are made in bedroom conferences, and before the week was out Britain, France...
...starting at street level, spiraled all the way up to the mezzanine (an ingenious arrangement necessitated by a New York State law forbidding two bars in the same establishment). An escalator led up to a cocktail-and-dancing lounge. In a huge elliptical room whose shallow-bowl shape made it seem smaller than it was, 1,300 people could dine, dance and watch a show on a stage that moved up, down, sideways and around, had so many complicated mechanical gadgets that a last-minute breakdown forced the management to cut the opening show in half. The show itself, like...
Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, knowing the mettle of this opponent, retaliated in kind. Over the Chinese forces in the Shanghai area-some 300,000-he put his onetime bitter enemy, General Pai Tsung-hsi, long held China's most brilliant military strategist. Promptly the campaign began to take shape...
...richest U. S. gold mines, the camp where President Coolidge said "I do not choose to run," the bowl-like mountain valley out of which Major Albert William Stevens sailed his stratosphere balloon in 1935, the outstanding granite mountain whose top Sculptor Gutzon Borglum is blasting into the shape of Washington's, Jefferson's, Lincoln's and Roosevelt's heads, the Wind Cave National Monument whose ten underground square miles have never been well explored, and the Fossil Cycad National Monument whose 360 acres preserve trees petrified 120,000,000 years...