Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noteworthy are the scenes depicting the origin and growth of mob violence and its development into the characterisically American form of the lynching. Not a pleasant experience, but one of such dramatic power and potential social importance that it cannot be missed. Accompanying this excellent picture is a stupid, slow-moving, puerile bit of Hollywood drivel which calls itself "Speed" and commands attention solely for its almost unopposed candidacy for this year's prize lemon...
Later in cutaway coat and striped trousers he wandered sadly down the hotel corridor. Before him a buxom Spanish charwoman was on her hands and knees scrubbing the floor. For three full minutes he stared solemnly at her healthy Andalusian contours, then a slow smile spread over the little Emperor's face. He fished in his pocket, produced a crisp ?5 note...
...famed Tommy Milton climbed into a coupe, crossed the starting line followed by 33 low-slung little racers, humming along in ranks of three, spaced 100 feet apart. After one slow "pacing lap," the coupe pulled off the track and the starter waved a green flag. Then, with a roar of opening throttles, the 500-mile Memorial Day automobile race began...
Automobile drivers have their own language. In it "heavy-footed" means not slow but fast. Lead-footed Louis Meyer, who vowed to quit driving after winning his second Indianapolis race, followed his usual tactics of tailing dangerous opponents, sprinting when they stopped for gas. At 360 miles, last year's winner, Kelly Petillo, who had hired a crack dirt-track driver named Doc Mackenzie to drive for him this year, could no longer stand the strain of seeing his car behind the leaders, jumped in to drive himself. He finished third. With less than 100 miles to go, Meyer...
...court still irks Mr. Marsh. Until the Chromel patents expired in 1923, Hoskins received large royalties from heating appliance manufacturers. Expansion of the electric appliance field, how ever, more than compensated for lost royalties. With total assets of less than $2,000,000, Hoskins last year made $429,000. Slow-spoken, tousled, deliberate, Metalman Marsh wears polka-dot ties, is rarely without a cigar. Before last week he had never received scientific kudos. Never plagued by labor troubles at the Hoskins plant, he worked out an employe compensation plan 13 years ago whereby a generous slice of profits is distributed...