Word: spinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...again for singing to flowers. Again he escapes, chases a pretty girl (Rolla France) into the phonograph factory, is herded into line, disrupts the phonograph-assembling routine with his fumbling individualism, finally confronts the phonograph tycoon, his old convict pal, disrupting also his routine. The plot now begins to spin like a pinwheel. Blackmailers, a love interest, the police, a fabulous Magic Park for lovers, a lost suitcase with the tycoon's fortune, make a buoyant arrangement in nonsense, ending with a ceremony to celebrate the factory's wiring for entire mechanization, no humans required. A high wind...
Sinclair Lewis, in Paris, discussed his new book. The heroine, Anne Vickers, "will be a sort of female Babbitt playing a reverse role, but she is not intended as a sarcastic interpretation of that glorious class of American women who help make the wheels of business spin. She will live on Main Street and Dr. Arrowsmith will be her family doctor...
When the University crew goes out today for its last spin on the Charles before entraining for Annapolis, the final line-up, which will probably remain intact for the Navy race on Saturday, will be the same as that which started against Tech last week, with the exception of number 2 position, which will be filled by C. F. Hovey '32 who has been rowing in the Jayvee boat. W. B. Bacon '33 will resume his seat at number 6, where J. W. Peirce '33 has been rowing the last two days...
...trying to pluck off one of Londos's toes. For 21 min. 42 sec. the two groveled, grunted, snorted, glowered, slapped, twisted and oozed. Once De Vito bowled over Londos with a butt in the stomach. Finally Londos whirled De Vito around his head in an "airplane spin," threw him down with a loud thud, sat on top of his chest until old fat Ernest Roeber, who used to be a professional wrestler and now referees many of Londos's championship bouts, patted his back for winning...
...stream of energy, likens the living matter of cells and bodies to inorganic rubbish whirlpool-caught. The gyroscopic adjustment of the whirlpool to obstacles in its course gives an illusion of intelligent purpose to the rubbish it holds together. Really, all the purpose animating the rubbish is to spin, to keep on spinning...