Word: slidings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years the ablest associate of the late Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday was Homer Alvan Rodeheaver, who played an old slide trombone which he bought for $4.50 while at Ohio Wesleyan University, led audiences in such rousing hymns as Brighten the Corner Where You Are! The decline of old-style evangelism and the death of Billy Sunday left Homer Rodeheaver less newsworthy but no less busy. Unctuous, large of frame, full of vigor at 55, he is much in demand as a speaker at gatherings of such evangelical bodies as Christian Endeavor. He runs a publishing house with offices...
...didn't write off a con in English until his senior year. But this ponderous and solumn Iowan had introduced a scheme for handling athletic, social, and campus organization funds that eliminated waste and graft to a "T". Few people noticed that he was also a wizard with a slide rule and geology maps...
...week Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art rounded up all the Blythe pictures it could get, put them on exhibition beside the works of another, long-forgotten Pennsylvanian, Joseph Boggs ("The Professor") Beale, whose lively drawings were lately discovered in the attic of a onetime Philadelphia lantern-slide maker (TIME, Aug. 19). Critics mentioned Brouwer and Hogarth, acclaimed David Blythe as a first-rate U. S. genre painter...
American Sugar, despite the highest sugar prices in years, made $3,571,000 in 1935, a considerable slide from the $4,877,000 profit in 1934. Chairman Earl D. Babst loudly blamed the company's loss of business on Government quotas, declared that import allowances for refined sugar from Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines had made refineries hum on those islands while "domestic refineries are working at half capacity...
...lover, given by Meierhold what they call in Russia social meaning.' This is apparently accomplished by the introduction of acrobatics . . . and all for a purpose. I can suggest this purpose by describing the entrance of the lover. . . . Meierhold places the lady at the foot of a tin slide, the lover climbs up a ladder to the top of the slide, zooms down it, feet first, knocks the lady off onto the floor and shouts something that sounds like Russian for 'Whee...