Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House of Commons that His Majesty's Government were "cowards" and "pol-troons". These cries were hollow, ignored by the Baldwin Cabinet like so much wind, because in fact the Empire has now scrapped all reliance on the League of Nations and is arming at breakneck speed-not necessarily for war, per-haps for Pax Britannica to be imposed on restless Europe in the future. It was more than ever clear last week that Sir Samuel Hoare is now the spokesman of His Majesty's Government to the King's subjects on this greatest shift in British...
...body. You did this notwithstanding Pilot Ed Hefley begged you to leave the pit to him. When the door into the pilot room blew open, and the flames were reaching into the cabin, you came out and closed the door. . . . Again the door blew open, so terrific was the speed, and again you came out, this time a human torch...
...14th floor of Manhattan's Wurlitzer Building one evening last week 15 men and women stepped out of a night school, started down in an elevator. As the car passed the twelfth floor, it picked up abnormal speed. The operator tried to check it with the control lever, failed. Instants later the car smashed into the spring buffers at the bottom of the pit, bounced up again, settled for good with its floor split, its walls and mechanism utterly demolished. Jounced into a screaming jumble on the floor were the passengers, all alive, but two with broken legs, others...
...Minneapolis, Helen Gross, 22, convinced that she had been unfairly arrested for speeding, refused to leave jail after her mother paid her fine, was ejected. Thereupon Helen Gross returned to the scene of her arrest, drove back & forth with a banner affixed to her car: "Picket! This car is traveling at a maximum speed, 20 miles per hour. Do Not Pass...
...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...