Word: smash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Next day similar reports failed to sustain the market. It slumped back to 58?. The third day prices climbed 3/4? and the fourth day 1/4? more on tales of dust storms in Kansas, delayed spring wheat planting in the Northwest. The fifth day the market went to smash, dropping to 56 1/2? per bu. Traders were jumpy at reports that the House of Representatives was about to abolish the Farm Board, thus throwing its 125,000,000-bu. holdings suddenly on the market. The stock market had been declining heavily all week. Bears dumped selling orders into the Chicago...
...other hand, Lois Moran topped a middling success in last season's This is New York with an appearance in the smash-hit Of Thee I Sing. Charles ("Buddy") Rogers, and, to a far greater degree, Lupe Velez, are currently enjoying a profitable association with Florenz Ziegfeld in his ornamental Hot-cha! An old leading man of Miss Moran's, Lawrence Gray, lent a dignified if uncertain grace to The Laugh Parade about the same time that Fay Wray starred in a short engagement of her husband's strange musical mixture, Nikki. Life Begins (by Mary McDougal...
...Devens, Mass. Early one morning Lieut. French and Mrs. McEnroe started to motor to Los Angeles. As they approached San Jose, the officer suddenly became violent, struck his companion over the head. Then he drove into a tree. Mrs. McEnroe was picked up by a truck. Police investigating the smash-up found swarthy, curly-headed Lieut. French dead with a bullet through his brain, apparently by his own hand. Then Mrs. McEnroe, told a strange story. She said the officer was one-eighth Negro, had passed for white for 14 years in the Army, had led white troops in France...
...present in the packed galleries of the Chamber of Deputies, pugnacious Son-of-a-Butcher Laval battled for votes of confidence in the major acts of his Government since last July (when the Chamber adjourned) and won triumph after triumph. The final ballot at 3 a. m. was a smash vote of confidence-325 to 150. While no French cabinet is ever secure against upset by the fickle Deputies, M. Laval's series of victories produced predictions last week that his Government will outlast the present Chamber and conduct the French election due next spring...
...Frederick J. Perry, onetime ping-pong champion and No. 2 singles player on the British Davis Cup team. His semi-final match with Vines was generally regarded as the one which would decide the championship. Vines won, after losing the first two sets and breaking two rackets with a smash that is now considered the fastest shot in U. S. amateur tennis...