Word: star
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Southern California, sometimes seems to be part of the very air and soil. The warm earth that produces the biggest trees, the most abundant fruits in the U. S., can also shake as it did in 1933. The mild and sunny climate is, like a serenely lovely movie star, also capable of temperamental fits. Any disturbances are naturally more horrifying in what seems in times of calm to be a terrestrial paradise, but last week the capital of Southern California had a climactic climatic experience that would have been shocking even in the Mississippi basin...
...Angeles' reaction to its flood last week was naturally somewhat like that of a cinema producer whose top-price star creates public scandal: a desire to minimize it as far as possible. Fifth day of the storm an emergency hookup was arranged so that Mayor Frank L. Shaw could send a message by short wave to San Francisco where it was rebroadcast to the alarmed nation over the Columbia network. Said Mayor Shaw: "We have not suffered a major disaster in any sense of the word . . . regret . . . unfounded reports to the contrary. . . . The sun is shining over Southern California...
...star prisoner last week was, however, no habitué of Moscow embassies. He was Genrikh ("Henry") Grigorevich Yagoda, who, next to Dictator Stalin, was for many years the most dread official in the Soviet Union, the head of Stalin's Secret Political Police. Harold Denny of the New York Times wrote of what the 250 spectators in the courtroom saw as they studied the star prisoner last week...
...Bosworth will lead the 1941 natators against a powerful Eli Freshman team tonight at New Haven. Metcalfe, Bulldog breaststroker, who has done 2:31 for the 200 route will star for Yale, while Frank Powers and Bosworth of the Crimson ought to place well in the distances and sprints respectively...
Among the newcomers who are challenging the regulars for first team positions is Pepper Constable, former Princeton football fullback and rugby star who will give the first string backs considerable competition because of his clever open-field running...