Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tourists taking the new road face a long, slow climb from the Rio Grande to the great plateau which fills the centre of Mexico. First real town is famed old Monterrey, scene in 1846 of one of the greatest battles of the U. S.-Mexican War, now the centre of Mexican industry. At Ciudad Victoria the tropics really begin...
...David's Head, Vamarie crossed the line four minutes ahead of the schooner Brilliant. When the race was over, however, neither had won, for brand new Kirawan, finishing third, beat them both by her 13-hr. time allowance. Time of the winner was 4 days, 20 hr., very slow because of a 50 m.p.h. gale which swooped down on the fleet in the Gulf Stream, made the race the roughest in 13 years, forced six yachts to scuttle back to the U. S. with split sails, broken rigging...
Working as ticket agent and brakeman on the Boston & Albany Railroad to earn his way through Boston Latin School and Harvard served slow-spoken, bespectacled, 225-lb. Thomas Charles O'Brien in good stead. Soon after he had his law degree he became counsel for the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, has since made his name as a Labor lawyer. Switching parties is nothing new to him. Elected a district attorney in 1922 as a Republican, he tried for a Democratic Senatorial nomination in 1930, has currently been trying again with Coughlin backing...
...well as the rhythm of "If Your Heart Keeps Right." Related he: "I step up in the dark of the moon in a strange village. I got no guides, no gun bearers, except my little old trombone of the Lord. I slip into Walk in Jerusalem Just Like John, slow at first and then faster . . . and before long, without my asking 'Will you abide with me or sing with me?' they are doing a shuffle and a-humming, repeating just that phrase. Soon they're surprised I got nothing to sell. So I sell them, for nothing...
...concealed their amazement by enthusiasm. They likened Louis, a cool young blackamoor who did his work with a commendable economy of motion, to a cobra, a leopard, a panther. He received innumerable complimentary and alliterated nicknames, and a match with noisy and preposterous Max Baer. Baer, like Camera, was slow, overgrown and easy to hit. Louis dealt with him the same way, except that this time the knock-out arrived in the fourth round. Louis ceased to be an animal. He became a "superman...