Word: start
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt frankly discussed the technique whereby, when shaking hands with lines of people, she whisks them along before they have time to start a conversation. Ex- cerpt...
...crooning Cowhand Gene Autry, top man in his calling and Hollywood's fanciest-chapped Western star, Newcomer Roy Rogers is more than a passing threat. Crooner Autry, picked three years ago from the radio and schooled in lyric foofaraw to start the singing cowboy school of Westerns, is currently holding out for more than the $5,000 a picture he has been getting from Republic Pictures. In an effort to frighten him back into the corral for the twelve pictures planned for him, Republic picked Rogers from a minor role in Autry's last film, The Old Barn...
...called a Flying Flapjack. Last week he announced that his Flapjack was ready for tests, almost ready for mass production, would revolutionize aviation. At Vancouver's Pearson Field one afternoon unlicensed Test Pilot Sidney Monastes climbed aboard, tuned the twin 38-h.p. motors, taxied out for the start. The Flapjack roared, reared its tail into flying position, bobbled the length of the field like an angry bumblebee across a windowpane. When it hit a barbed-wire fence at the field's end, the Flapjack flipped over, came to ignominious rest in a freshly fertilized cornfield...
...spirit of cooperation. On this we stand at the crossroads. . . . Government is essential to protect and develop our civilization. But let us have government by law- thou shall or shall not-not government by edict. That means a stifling regulation -the direct road to regimentation. And when we start, there is no turning back...
...want to be hot at ping-pong, start training on scotch and soda early in life," James M. Jacobson 1B, former national table tennis champion advised ping-pong hopefuls in an interview yesterday...