Word: smashings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether seasoned Jim Braddock had deliberately conserved himself during the early rounds, saving his energy and his aging legs for a smash-bang windup, or whether he had been momentarily rejuvenated by a desperate will-to-win, aided & abetted by the exhilarating encouragement from the galleries, no two fans seemed to agree. But in his dressing room after the fight, Jim Braddock probably had the answer: a rabbit's-foot charm and a painted horseshoe. To his merry, milling admirers he explained that the horseshoe had been presented to him just before the fight by John F. ("Jafsie") Condon...
...Mussolini and Hitler are now out to try to smash the League, and last week they were assisted by Poland's Foreign Minister Josef Beck, who scarcely conceals his Nazi leanings. Colonel Beck, before leaving Warsaw to visit Foreign Minister Constantin von Neurath in Berlin, roundly declared: "The present world crisis is primarily a League crisis, caused by the League's failures. . . . The fact that the League from its inception did not embrace all countries, and particularly the stronger countries,* was the origin of this crisis...
...vessel was headed into a heavy norther which was tossing us around and filling the forward deck with four feet of water. We were carrying a shipment of 477 empty barrels on that deck, and they started to break loose and smash door knobs. . . . To save the ship from damage, we brought her around out of the wind so the crew could clear the deck and throw some of the barrels overboard. Irwin went on the forcastle head and watched the crew at work. But when the third officer headed the ship in the wind again, Irwin kept standing there...
Last week's blackface Otello, veteran Giovanni Martinelli, could have won his audience without the smash-clapping and howling of the inevitable claque. Elisabeth Rethberg (Desdemona) substituted massively for Eide Norena, who was ill. Long-legged, snub-nosed Lawrence Tibbett (lago) acted so enthusiastically he almost made a home-plate slide in the second...
...went to 67% of normal; auto output stood at 58,000 units v. 85,000 last fortnight and 102,000 year ago. And the New York Times business index slid on down, having slumped more in the past three months than in the 13 months following the 1929 market smash With such figures in the headlines, mostly a week to two weeks behind hand and only a further decline in view, there was ample reason for renewed fall of stocks, and week Dow-Jones industrial averages set a new low of 113.6, then bounced back ten points in the customary...