Word: start
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Listening to the two boys arguing, Vag suddenly realizes he's never been on a roller-coaster. Tonight's the night to start! "Seven times is my usual quota," says the Vag nonchalantly. "Anyone join...
...Thetis' crew could do so little to save themselves, there were two major explanations: 1) the tilted escape chamber proved a death trap; 2) the Thetis' crew did not start to save itself until its air was fouled and bilge water had begun to wet the batteries, releasing chlorine gas. Says the escape manual of the U. S. Navy, father of the submarine: "It is emphasized that if attempted individual escape is delayed until the first stages of asphyxia have developed, it will probably be too late successfully to accomplish...
...left suffrage work after three years to take a copywriting job in a Manhattan advertising agency. She hated that, too, and went to Cincinnati to help start an experiment in preventive medicine. Her employers sent her back to New York and the next thing she knew she was in love. When that seemed to be turning out badly she ran away to Europe, as everybody...
...usually has a luncheon date, to make a speech, receive a medal or talk politics with somebody. After lunch she reads some more, paces around her apartment, with a pencil and a pad of yellow paper in her hand, and generally gets curious about something and starts telephoning people. She runs up tremendous telephone bills calling Washington and London. At teatime people start dropping in: friends, ex perts and refugees. She almost always goes out to dinner, or has a flock of people to her apartment. She seldom talks anything but world affairs and seldom stops talking them. Her husband...
...Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers pictorial view of fox trots, rhumbas, slides and glides in the "Story of Vernon and Irene Castle." Unfortunately, the picture offers little else. During Vernon's early slapstick days--his barber shop scene with Lew Fields, his gaudy, striped coats that are liable to start a national trend, his old-fashioned romance with Irene Foote--the picture proceeds at a light and entertaining pace. The mood of pre-war gaiety and Sunday excursions to the beach at New Rochelle is, made delightfully real. But once Vernon and Irene are happily married, the sad curse...