Word: stemming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beset with countless difficulties, hindered by carping criticism, the brave doctors at the Hygiene Building have been laboring like Trojans to stem the measly tide, but yesterday Fate at last brought them to their knees...
Washington society has been the duller since Mrs. Henderson died in 1931, aged 90. Wealthy widow of the late Senator from Missouri and friend of Presidents Lincoln through Hoover inclusive, it was among her various ambitions to make 16th Street the social stem of Washington, D. C. Buying great quantities of real estate, she induced the Austrian, Spanish, Cuban, Polish, French and Lithuanian embassies to move there, built a $300.000 palace which she attempted time after time to have made the official home of the Vice Presidents of the U. S. Vegetarian, ardent prohibitionist (she poured her husband...
...nabbed by Japanese water front police. "We know who you Germans are," said the Japanese police captain wisely. "Sugar smugglers, that's what you are! We've had orders to watch out for sugar smugglers." Taking a long chance, the pirate captain roared, "Search my ship from stem to stern and you won't find a single bag of sugar...
...hacked out the libretto. But, at first, words were lost while the audience gaped in bewilderment at Frederick Kiesler's setting. The kiosk resembled the turret of a battleship topped by an old-fashioned lampshade. To suggest the garden a lighting arrangement projected on the backdrop a horizontal stem and four big embryonic leaves. A moon was suspended in the sky like a bruised alligator pear...
...more expensive models are complete with a red railroad station marked LIONELVILLE, a sponge rubber roadbed moulded to look like rock ballast, a thick steel tunnel through which speeds a locomotive, fire box aglow, pulling a string of Lionel Line coaches. Lionel Corp. still makes stem-wind locomotives, but President J. (for Joshua) Lionel Cowen, who gave his middle name to the company, was a pioneer in electrification. Onetime apprentice with Henner & Anderson, early makers of dry batteries, he spent his teens inventing a flashlight, finding new uses in surgical instruments for small electric bulbs. At 20, struck with...