Word: short
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...talents. Said Pastor's manager, James Joy Johnston: "It took Louis 21 rounds to knock out Pastor-ten in New York [1937] and eleven in Detroit." But the majority of fair-minded fans, aware that Louis had set up such a high pugilistic standard that for him anything short of a one-round knockout was a big black demerit, applauded his prowess. In 43 professional fights-since the night in 1934 when he got $50 for knocking out one Jack Kracken-the Brown Bomber has been defeated only once (by Max Schmeling), has knocked out all but seven...
...further increases in production are limited by: 1) the fact that many mines have not now the man power or machine power to shift to a six-day week; 2) such coal carriers as Norfolk & Western, Virginian, Chesapeake & Ohio (relatively prosperous and well-equipped roads) were so short of cars that they penalized any mine which failed to load within 24 hours every empty delivered on their switches-a state of affairs exactly the same as existed...
...from the U. S. it bought $288,558.-ooo. But by the end of 1938 sales to the U. S. dropped to $126.820,000, purchases in the U. S. dropped to $239,620,000 and Japanese merchants could see in black & white what a boycott, a recession and short exchange had done to their business...
...bills himself on his calling card as the greatest pianist on earth, obviously the name Willie Smith is an insufficient handle. Accordingly, Harlem's Willie Smith calls himself The Lion*and habitually refers to himself in the third person. His entrance into a Harlem hotspot is nothing short of imperial. "The Lion is here," is his simple greeting, and it gets plenty of respectful attention. For Willie may not be the greatest piano player on earth, but he is hard to beat between 110th Street and the Yankee Stadium...
Author Milne further objects to the lopsided fate that lets his plays (Mr. Pim Passes By, etc.), novels and essays (which he prefers) be forgotten and has made children's classics of When We Were Very Young and Winnie-the-Pooh. Sick & tired of his short-pants reputation, he sticks out his tongue at the tots and says rudely: "I am not inordinately fond of or interested in children; their appeal to me is a physical appeal such as the young of other animals make...