Word: solider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three acts of solid suspense, piffling but none the loss deadly, John Murray and Allen Boretz's "Room Service" surpasses the most lugubrious of tragedies. In fact, although it is farcical throughout and even borders on the slap-stick, it threatens more than once to drop off into sheer disaster. It has to do with the now familiar theme of putting on a show, but the hopelessness of the predicaments into which the youthful producer breezes is amazingly original. Those dilemmas are also uproarious, except that there is grave danger lest the sympathetic souls in the audience become too busy...
...well furred on chest and back. By matching him not against Champion Steele but against the No.1 U. S. challenger, San Francisco's Fred Apostoli, Mike Jacobs left the way clear for another championship bout. Boxer Apostoli won half of the first eight rounds. In the ninth a solid left hook opened a long gash over Thil's right eye. By the next round so much blood was running down Thil's face and trickling through the hair on his chest that Referee Arthur Donovan stepped in, gave Apostoli Thil's title on a technical knockout...
...come to Berlin a year before and likewise made good in his own way. but the Führer never publicly notices him. Alois, half brother of Adolf, also sprouts an oblong, dark mustache, but, unlike his abstinent vegetarian, nonsmoking, bachelor kinsman, Alois, a restaurant owner, goes for good solid food eased down with steins of German beer, puffs on cigars, has a 17-year-old son. Unlike the camera-famous Führer, Alois shies from newshounds, picture-takers...
...celebrated scientists lave written popular books about their own specialties. Anthropologist Earnest Albert Hooton (Up from the Ape) and Astronomer Harlow Shapley (Flights from Chaos) are exceptions. But in general relatively obscure men, journalists with solid scientific backgrounds or university scientists with a flair for journalism have taken the job of making science "understanded of the people." Among such U. S. interpreters of science three men are particularly outstanding...
...help unload cargo onto a lighter in midstream. Uruguayan longshoremen were on strike against employment of non-union labor. Inspired to a quixotic display of labor solidarity by three rabid unionists, the Algic's seamen swore they would not work with scab longshoremen until the River Plate froze solid...