Word: solids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manager's office of the Shubert Theatre last week stepped a round-faced, grey-haired, solid-shouldered man to become Mayor of Minneapolis. He was Alexander Gilberg ("Buzz") Bainbridge, a political novice, looking older and wiser than his 47 years. As a Republican he had just defeated Farmer-Laborite Mayor William A. Anderson in a nip & tuck election. Mayor Anderson had kept Minneapolis from seeing Crazy Quilt, Fanny Brice's raw revue. He had vetoed the city's beer ordinance, sent citizens to St. Paul for Sunday drinks. Many a Minneapolitan, weary of reform, turned hopefully...
...objectified) person in the book. A picaresque Everyman, he wanders the world searching for his soul, finally finds it; but most readers will be less interested in his quest than in his adventures by the way. Not a great book, except in size, Anthony Adverse is a solid, worthy addition to U. S. Letters. Postponed from month to month, it finally appears as July choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club...
...Luis at a Livorno convent. After a peaceful childhood there he was adopted by old John Bonnyfeather. Scottish merchant in Livorno and actually his grandfather. Both suspected their relationship but neither, out of respect for his mother's memory, ever openly acknowledged it. Anthony was given a solid education and brought up as a gentleman-heir in his grandfather's establishment. Arrived at years of discretion and having survived his first passionate love-affair. Anthony went to Cuba to collect a long-standing debt to the firm. Havana suited him. and he fell in love again, but business...
...punches to Schmeling's head. Schmeling backed away to the ropes, dizzy. Baer, who talks constantly while fighting, said to the referee between pants, "This looks like the end," and followed Schmeling with a rain of blows which made Schmeling's knees buckle. It took one more solid punch, this one a carefully measured right while Schmeling stood forlornly near the ropes, trying to hold up his hands, to send the German down. Schmeling went over backwards, sat on the canvas till the referee's count reached eight, then began dragging himself slowly to his feet...
Because one of J. P. Morgan & Co.'s deals was the financing of Alleghany Corp., Mr. Pecora sent to Cleveland and brought the bachelor brothers Oris Paxton and Mantis James Van Sweringen posting to the Capital, put "O. P." upon the stand and kept him there four solid days...